Shinare
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Happy National Punctuation Day
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“Questioning a comma, he will shake his head and say in his soft voice that he realizes perfectly well what a lot of time and thought have gone into the comma and that in the ordinary course of events he would be the first to say that the comma was precisely the form of punctuation that he would have been most happy to encounter at that very place in the sentence, but isn’t there the possibility — oh, only the remotest one, to be sure, and yet perhaps worth considering for a moment in the light of the care already bestowed on the construction — that the sentence could be made to read infinitesimally more clearly if, say, instead of a comma a semicolon were to be inserted at just that point?”
— Brendan Gill, on editor William Shawn —
“Here at the New Yorker,” Random House 75 _________________ For with what measure you measure it will be measured to you.
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