In a sentence in a book there there lived a colon. Not a long, verbose, overcomplicated sentence, filled with phrases and clauses and dangling participles, nor yet a terse, simple, brief sentence, without an adverb or an adjectival phrase: it was a Tolkien-sentence, and that means commas.
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In a sentence in a book there there lived a colon. Not a long, verbose, overcomplicated sentence, filled with phrases and clauses and dangling participles, nor yet a terse, simple, brief sentence, without an adverb or an adjectival phrase: it was a Tolkien-sentence, and that means commas.
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Happy Sunday
I enjoyed this comment on the anon meme about why fandom seems to ship the same thing over & over: it's because we sort of have one ship and we tend…
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For your pleasure and edification today: a whole lot of meteorite videos on one page. All hail the ubiquity of the Russian anti-scam dash cam!
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The best thing I read this week about writing that wasn't about writing.
FILM CRITIC HULK on the art of "cinematic affectation" and how choices in cinematography work. Yes, yes, it's about film and visual stuff, but as I…
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