National Punctuation Day

[Richard Ryan]

Ah, the seldom-seen, much-coveted double-nested quotation. 

--- On Wed, 9/24/08, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: National Punctuation Day
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 3:06 PM

Perhaps my favorite use of punctuation by anyone, anywhere:

GR (Penguin, p. 552):

"Oh, where've you been, gate?"
"'Here.'"
"'"Here"'?"


Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 24, 2008 10:07 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: National Punctuation Day
>
>"A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotes, and other
>proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis."
>
>http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

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