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* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in ''[[American Splendor]]'', as the story is less about the pictures and more about character dialog and Harvey Pekar's inner monologue.
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* In the documentary ''[[Crumb]]'', [[Robert Crumb]] flips through his brother's old amateur comics to show the brother's mental breakdown. With each page, the drawings become more and more pushed back by larger and larger bubbles crammed with text, until finally the drawings are discarded and Crumb is just flipping through page after page of microscopic text. It's quite creepy.
* The opening crawl of ''[[Alone in the Dark]]''.
== Literature ==
* [[Ye Olde
** A lot of this came from the fact that some works were published in periodicals, and the authors were paid by the word or line. The endless single sentence was usually a clever trick to avoid having their stories (and their paychecks) cut down, since cutting part of a sentence can be tricky.
* The novel ''The Rotter's Club'' has a sentence that is apparently [[Up to Eleven|13,955 words long.]]
* Most people's first impression of [[The Bible]].
* The book ''[[Ulysses]]'' ends with two sentences in its final chapter. The first one is 11,281 words long and the second is 12,931 words long.
* Nobel prize Jose Saramago loved to to this, do not try to imitate him, he got a nobel for a reason.
* The literary style of maximalism emphasizes the author writing down ''everything'' that crosses his/her mind in the interest of painting a more "complete" picture of the author's/character's mindset.
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