In after-years [Piglet] liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was in the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull’s egg by mistake, and the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly and naturally, slipping slowly out of the window towards the water until he was only hanging on by his toes, at which moment luckily, a sudden loud squawk from Owl, which was really part of the story, being what his aunt said, woke Piglet up and just gave him time to jerk himself back into safety and say, “How interesting, and did she?” when—well, you can imagine his joy when at last he saw the good ship, The Brain of Pooh (Captain, C. Robin; 1st Mate, P. Bear) coming over the sea to rescue him.
-A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, 145-146.
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My Pastor just preached a sermon from Ephesians 1:3-14, the longest sentence is scripture (205 words). THIS, on the other hand, is the longest sentence in Winnie-the-Pooh (194 words). Following another train of thought...note that Piglet's experience in this passage closely parallels that of Eutychus, in Acts 20.
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