Unfinished story … how the ellipsis arrived in English literature

[Dave Monroe]

A Cambridge academic claims to have found the first use of a
‘brilliant innovation’ that has endured as a mark of incomplete speech

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/20/unfinished-story-how-the-ellipsis-arrived-in-english-literature?CMP=share_btn_fb

"First ellipsis in GRAVITY'S RAINBOW comes on page 1, paragraph 3, and
the last on the last page of the novel, p. 760 in the 1973 Viking
trade paperback edition."

---Doug Millison
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