John A. Woodworth

To me this demonstrated a masterful use of em dash, comma and semi colon to string a narrative. To write a run-on sentence is simple... to employ proper punctuation or even improper punctuation so that it makes sense is a challenge. Writing like that is a reason to subscribe.From his article Beating Scriptures from Fish in the Appalachia Journal Winter 1984:

"Chengtu is a melange of offensive odors, a din, a welter of confused discordant sounds, a clangor of traffic, a noisy, dusty, dirty place of milling pedestrians of every age and description — half-clad children with half-shaved heads playing in the street; old men with long, drooping, thin mustaches and sparse, pointed beards; young men in modern dress; old women hobbling painfully on tiny, bound feet, victims of a social custom now forbidden by government decree; men wildly running an dodging through the crowds pulling swaying rickshaws; soldiers in yellow cotton uniforms; officers carrying sabers; a rare automobile, klaxon blaring, crowding everyone off the street; geese and ducks swimming in puddles; hens pecking their way in and out of doorways; peddlers of eels holding their slimy catch aloft for a buyers critical scrutiny; bakers compounding strange pastries on tiny stoves; large, open-sided teahouses, crammed with people and humming with conversation; knots of curious bystanders watching a G.I. bargain over a souvenir, throngs of theatergoers pouring out of a puppet shadow play; policemen in black uniforms that look like crepe paper, wearing black helmets and an air of authority in the glint of their spectacles; craftsmen at their shops, metal workers, silversmiths, cabinet makers, and tailors."

-John A Woodworth