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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    the august journal that is The Fellrunner
    I missed the August one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    Indeed he does and he is my favourite (living) RO and his races are very special and he is a lovely person but please keep that all quiet 'cos if 400 people turn up and his races start to look like some other brash and vulgar events then he'll stop organising them and like the late lamented Cononley Gala Fell Race - to be immortalised shortly in the august journal that is The Fellrunner - his low key events will be lost to us and future generations and we wouldn't want that... so sssh.
    This post doesn't meet your usual punctuation standards, G.
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    What. Punctu-ation,

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    Quote Originally Posted by mr brightside View Post
    This post doesn't meet your usual punctuation standards, G.
    Fear Not! As one who has read Henry James I appreciate the vitality - nay, necessity - of a well punctuated piece and; as I often say, why use a humble , where a ; conveys just that subtle hint of a longer pause: however, having written that, one must be wary that a plethora of over-punctilious punctuation might be perceived as ... perhaps pastiche? Perish the thought!
    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    Fear Not! As one who has read Henry James I appreciate the vitality - nay, necessity - of a well punctuated piece and; as I often say, why use a humble , where a ; conveys just that subtle hint of a longer pause: however, having written that, one must be wary that a plethora of over-punctilious punctuation might be perceived as ... perhaps pastiche? Perish the thought!
    I think your post was more Ulysses than The Turn of the Screw.
    The land at the end of our toes goes on and on and on.

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    I think your post was more Ulysses than The Turn of the Screw.
    Perhaps so and possibly the worst of (his) books and the best of (his) books.
    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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    Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college

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    ....it's all downhill from here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_Mole View Post
    Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college

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    "Only I was going to kindergarten; Frank was going to junior high; and Father was going to work on the atom bomb."

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    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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    "Only I was going to kindergarten; Frank was going to junior high; and Father was going to work on the atom bomb."
    I think he kind of made the point there
    ....it's all downhill from here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave_Mole View Post
    I think he kind of made the point there
    My view is:

    - he was joking in the original quote

    - he, like many writers, liked hyperbole. It attracts attention

    - he believed "rules" were made to be broken and so he did, even his own. But writers can

    - he didn't know how to use semicolons and used them like commas. But then, so what?

    And finally; I didn't like his writing much anyway when I was reading him (and I have been to Dresden).
    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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