M&D punctuation,--a hint.

[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Richard Ney Jr. wrote:
> 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.

Pray tell, were each of these combinations supposed to have a particular
subtlety of meaning?

Max

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