what makes the perfect sentence?

[cacian]

i am interested in the usage of words and language and so would be intersting to see what you think

[PeterL]

It is interesting that you would ask that question today, the day when Umbert Eco died. Eco was the world's foremost semioticist, specialist in the science of signs that have meaning, how they go together, and how they are interpreted. He was also a novelist, probably best known for The Name of the Rose; he wrote that immediately after he wrote his theory of semiotics, and the novel is all about signs. He also wrote extensively on literary interpretation. Another of his novels, Foucault's Pendulum, was written immediately after he wrote one of his books on interpretation and misinterpretation, or maybe The Role of the Reader. Eco might have dreamed up a good answer to your question, but the best answer would be that it depends on what one is trying to convey. What fits?

http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/

[bounty]

a partial contribution to the larger question at hand:

I was recently at a local library sale and I picked up a book by jk rowling, the author of the harry potter series. at first I didn't think I was going to get it, but on the back I read something that convinced me. a reviewer had written "there were sentences I underlined for the sheer purpose of figuring out how English words could be combined so delightfully."

[Ecurb]

A suspended one (from the defendant's point of view).