M&D punctuation,--a hint.

[Richard Ney Jr.]

Having only thumbed the first few pages, I was struck immediately by the
combination of commas and dashes in no fewer than five places on page
one.

Commashes ',--' (along with colashes ':--' and semicolashes ';--'), as
described by Nicholsan Baker in the pedantic The Size of Thoughts, were
used extensively throughout Thackeray, G. Eliot, Proust, Dickens, etc,
etc, etc.

-R

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