👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little mouthful! Now, the admittedly rather grand-sounding phrase –
"all preventing anything from happening at all, absolutely everything stopped before a thing could even
consideredly
begin to exist."
– is essentially just an emphatic way of saying… you guessed it... that something is stopping absolutely, positively, 100% every single possible thing.
Let's unpack this beast. Seriously, when I first saw that phrase in writing, I nearly choked on my frankly rather sensible Earl Grey. It feels a bit like you’ve strapped a gigantic, very serious padlock onto the concept of… well, just about everything! Basically, we tend to use shorter words – such as, say, "preventing," and even then, it can be a little underwhelming in its totality. "All preventing, absolutely everything from happening at all..." is an exaggeration for effect. A very, very emphatic exaggeration that’s probably not actually how the human mind works. The point of it? To get the sheer, unshakeable stubbornness of something stopping existence itself to hit you squarely in the face. It's a bit much, frankly. But people are weird and they enjoy this kind of dramatic, almost ridiculously verbose description. --- Here’s an unsettling example sentence that attempts to lean into that slightly hysterical quality: The old grandfather clock, perpetually chiming a glacial,
