[ WP ] What is the longest sentence you can create while staying on subject and not turning it into a run-on sentence ?

I supposed I could give this challenge a shot, but as I considered and pondered the pros and cons of undertaking such a task, stopping liberally to also consider many other subjects completely irrelevant to what I'd initially set out to do, I began to realize that my participation in this endeavor was little more than a product of my own competitive, sportsmanlike vanity, endearing me to the thought of besting all others, be they competitors, spectators, hapless passers-by or inanimate objectsand I was quite repulsed at the characteristically capitalistic tendencies I was displaying despite holding quite a revulsion at the same tendencies in other people, but regardless, as I went on and on, beating around the bush and hemming and hawing about whether or not to devote any serious effort to the composition of a sentence comprised of unmatched length ( a competition not wholly unfamiliar to most men ) I eventually reached the decisive and unquestionable conclusion that all it would really take to succeed here would be to string together an impossible amount of compound sentences, which may consist of innumerable separate clauses and ideas but nonetheless holds steady to the definition outlined by the original provider of the question at hand as a'single sentence' and so growing quite bored of the analysis, I decided it would be best and behoove me the most to insert a symbol of punctuation right here at this juncture, where I stand firm in my belief that if this is n't the longest contribution to the thread of conversation, at the very least it may have been one of the cleverer responses received hitherto.
