Ahem...
"He may be dead; or he may be teaching English." - Cormac McCarthy (Use of semi-colons suggests early provenance; CM hates 'em.)Labels: horses
posted by murat11 at 5:43 PM
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
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12 Comments:
Hmm, some writers are averse to punctuation, like Saramago. :P
Anyway, music recommendation for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SVDn34vVQ
Ahem about a semi-colon??? That's strange.
DM: As writers, we all have our idiosyncrasies, eh? CM is just rabidly anti-semicolon. Or was; he may be mellowing in his old age as a new father.
Love the video. I'll go looking for more.
Teresa: The semicolon comment was just lagniappe. On the eve of returning to school for seven teacher "work" days, I thought the suggestion that teaching English was beyond being dead was hilarious. As CM is a personal favorite, it just added to the humor for me.
Well, it is hard to say what some people will do in the after-life. Do you think English teachers are higher or lower on the karmic scale than say, elephants?
T: I'm not even sure they're on the scale, though - re: karma - I'm sure they're heavier than los elefantes.
Heavier?? Because of all the weighty tomes they contain in memory and inflict on poor benighted students???
Teresa: Precisely. And mind, we're talking English teachers, not, say, writers who just happen to occupy an English class-space.
To be fair I rarely use the semi-colon myself, even though I recognise the utility. Wonder what that says about me...hmmm.
Methinks the professor doth protest too much!!!
DM: I've slowly been coming back around to semicolonic utility. I was off 'em for a good while, substituting the symmetry of colons for their asymmetry, but I now find the occasional; poetic; placement; refreshing;
Teresa: Not much else the professor doth do...
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