Complex sentence: The second reason is the sheer dificulty of text itself which has baffled all but the most determined modern reader for stylistically the Discourse veers abruptly from passages of sublime purple prose to crabbed note-book jotting.
Split into simpler sentences: The second reason is the sheer dificulty of text itself which has baffled all but the most determined reader. Stylistically the Discourse veers abruptly from passages of sublime purple prose to crabbed note-book jotting.