James Joyce is known for his rambling on, his multitude of adjectives stacked upon each other; Ernest Hemingway knew how to work a sentence for building pace and tension; but these lines in these are simply run-on sentences. It's the Polish language and its plethora of cases that allow this to happen. I've seen it cross over from Polish into English. While correcting translations for Al, I was always irked by how the sentences never seemed to come to an end, as if she loved the thought so much that she couldn't bear to add a period, instead she'd tack on another clause (without a semi-colon!)
Michalczew, and its mysterious church
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The Church of the Holy Family, Michalczew, halfway between Chynów and
Warka. The shape, the setting, the surroundings... are mo*f*t unusual. Note
the paint...
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