Re: Unfinished story … how the ellipsis arrived in English literature

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-general-interest/ellipsis-english-literature-signs-omission

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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