I think he wrote it "in pious times ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was called a sin."
It was just a political diatribe and designed, in modern times, to plague the lives of English literature students!!!!
Where is the longest sentence in William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!"? I read this in Wikipedia
"The 1983 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for what it claims is the "Longest Sentence in Literature". It cites a sentence from Absalom, Absalom! containing 1,300 words."
Does anyone know which sentence this is, and where to find it? (Which chapter?)
According to this post, the sentence begins with the words, "They bore it as though ..." and can be found on page 361 of the corrected text Modern Library:
http://www.enotes.com/absalom/q-and-a/where-actual-novel-chapter-number-etc-can-locate-328
