Friday, August 17, 2007

Exclamation point

Read Helen DeWitt's post about her struggle to publish a book with the punctuation and capitalization of her choosing. The story does not pit Editors against Art. It's Ignorance against an author.

And note how well her writing rhythm captures the acceleration and elevation of the conflict.

[via Languagehat]

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