Comments on: [writing] Herman Melville’s friend, the humble comma

By: David

David — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:28:02 +0000

Ah, the joy of the well-placed comma – it is a feeling I remember fondly, with a warm after-glow that has kept me going for ten, nay fifteen years, years that have passed since finishing my MA thesis, a dissertation on Thomas Pynchon’s stunningly complex master-piece, aptly entitled Mason & Dixon; a work that has imprinted above-mentioned joy on me for, I reckon, the rest of my life.

By: Paul Jessup

Paul Jessup — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:26:28 +0000

Moby Dick is a little less running sentance-y, with less commas and the like. But I must admit, that is a pain in the ass for modern eyes and ears to read.

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