Cormac McCarthy's Three Punctuation Rules, and How They All Go Back to James Joyce | Open Culture

[Tommy Pinecone]

Joyce can be terribly excessive with punctuation unless he's taking it away
as a stylistic choice. I also enjoy how complicated the writings of
DeQuincey and other writers of that period can be through stylistic
brilliance while obeying the rules of grammar and punctuation; they are
written for the page as opposed to streamlined for the mind to easily
comprehend. A lot like Gass at times in their virtuosity.

Interesting to see what McCarthy thinks on these topics though, we can't
pick battles over minutiae with someone who achieved a work like Blood
Meridian.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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