Garth's Decision to Stay or Go

Long multi-clause sentences feel like trying to sing the national anthem while giving a blowjob, which is a tender, patriotic thing to do. T.H. White's sentence works because it describes a progression and he's precise and he handles the transition cleanly. By urging you towards shorter sentences, I don't mean to curtail your ambition, you can pull some lovely nuanced tone with that ship, but you have to know why. From they may pick the noun at the end, what's having done it? Stand down, gromarians, I know it doesn't always work like this.