Illness-inducing entries have been pouring over the transom here
at Sentence of Death Contest headquarters. The contest seeks
examples of the very worst, most needlessly incomprehensible,
sentence from a published scientific report.
Dan Goldstein has unearthed a majestic candidate. It is a footnote
from Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals":
"A maxim is the subjective principle of a volition: an
objective principle (that is, one which would also serve
subjectively as a practical principle for all rational
beings if reason had full control over the faculty of
desire) is a practical law."
Many of you sent entries that contain obtuse equations or
monstrous mathematical lemmas. The judges have ruled that such
sentences constitute unfair competition (one judge called them "as
indigestible as slow-roasted bullion cubes"). Henceforth only
prose, please.
Email your entry to us at <marca@wilson.harvard.edu> but also
please, please, please SNAIL MAIL a photocopy of the original page
to:
Sentence of Death Contest
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PO Box 380853
Cambridge MA 02238 USA