Given that we’ve been thinking and talking so much about editing this week, I thought I’d share something I came across on Facebook:

Note that the highlighted section is A SINGLE SENTENCE. There are so many ideas packed into this sentence that I had to read it three or four times just to parse all of its clauses. I love Richard Brody’s reviews, and obviously he would put more care into something he planned to publish than he would a quick Facebook post, but it was kind of shocking (and strangely reassuring) to see writing like this from an award-winning film critic.