Ellipsis (was grgr (34): "now everybody---")

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<< Anyone thought much about P's incontinent sprinkling of ellipsis
 everywhere?  I do it myself, I'm afraid....   

My little fuzzy paperback dictionary here defines "ellipsis" as My little 
fuzzy paperback dictionary here defines "ellipsis" as

1) the omission of a word or words necessary for complete grammatical
construction but understood in the context (a slang-y example from
American English -- "I could care less" *really* means "I couldn't care
less" -- and I hate people who don't say it properly)
2) a mark (...) indicating an intentional omission of words or letters
or an abrupt change of thought, lapse of time,incomplete statement,
etc.>>


The use of ellipses as a recurrent punctuation probably reached it's apogee 
in the novels of Celine who finds more uses for them then the the two 
described above.

Pynchon in GR, it seems to me, uses them similarly for a variety of purposes; 
there is some body of literature on P's use of various punctuations and 
typefaces, most notably the recurrent movie sprockets (if that's what they in 
fact are).