Ode to Jon Fosse

If I write a sentence and it keeps going beyond what the reader expects, like Jon Fosse, until it begins to demand more than what actually most sentences demand, and if I continue to write in that way and keep writing that way, extending it, pushing (you) the reader down further and further and further, and if I don’t stop and keep going and going, but each time you move to the next word, there is a new meaning, something happening that was not known, call it new information, and if I continue to give you new information and build on the known information, like how I am thinking about the actual structure of a sentence and how it can stretch and when is its breaking point, and how much is too much for a reader to bear, and when will the reader quit (left to right/top to bottom) or continue as long as there is new information, developed concepts that begin to work alongside the structure of the sentence and paint word pictures or concrete concepts like red wheelbarrows glistening with droplets of water beneath an Autumn sunrise at the conclusion of a the maximalist sentence.

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