Subject: Re: second opinion
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 22:13:37 GMT
Paul Kennedy wrote (with rather obvious inflammatory intent):
>
>!
>
>(Cecilia will perhaps grace the group with a translation....)
I think I just saw a glove drop. Yes, definitely a glove, P.K. Can't miss
it.
My dear friend Paul Kennedy is attempting to coax me to expound upon the
uses of proper punctuation, a subject on which I've lectured him on more
than one occasion. Ahem.
When I was but a young thing, my high school English teacher, Mr. Wooddell,
stood in front of the class and said, "Pretend that you're only allowed the
use of four exclamation points your whole life long. Let that be your guide
in determining whether one is absolutely necessary right now. If it is
unnecessary," he continued, "Then you have obviously done something wrong.
Rewrite your sentence so that it is strong enough not to depend upon its
punctuation."
Amen, Alleleuia.
Paul, you see, is an abuser of a mark of punctuation that must be used with
the utmost care. Throws it about willy-nilly, he does.
>Ahem, at the risk of permanently blowing ANY chance of tenure, ALMOST
>EVERYBODY writes better than JJ.
Paul Kennedy is wrong!
(That mark of punctuation totally deserved. See the difference, folks?)
Sure, old JJ didn't exactly write literature that was accessible to the
masses, but *I'd* like to write so badly.
Regards,
Cecilia, chortling in her joy.
___
"You have your cup of scalding Souchong, your taper's waxen drop, your cat's
paw, the clove or coffinnail you chewed or champed as you worded it, your
lark in clear air. So why, pray, sign anything as long as every word,
letter, penstroke, paperspace is a perfect signature of its own? A true
friend is known much more easily, and better into the bargain, by his
personal touch, habits of full or undress, movements, response to appeals
for charity than by his footwear, say."
- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake.
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