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I don’t want to fuck the semicolon. I like it when with language you can do things that everybody tells you you shouldn’t do. I like it when you use words or punctuation that everybody tells you you shouldn’t use. Ultimately, the problem is to make things work, of course.
I find idiosyncrasies interesting, but always disagreeable. I would love to read a story with only semicolons, for example. I have a special fondness for the parenthesis, hated by most people. There is a great book, The Watcher (La giornata di uno scrutatore, 1963) by Italo Calvino, in which parentheses are used constantly to give to the thoughts of the narrator a sense of discontinuity and precariety. Language interests me for what you can do with it, even when it seems that everything has been done. I am not interested in restrictions as much as in possibilities.
1 commenti:
cool. still, i think that punctuation is often useful as time signature: like the rest in music.
so, for instance:
if
,=quaver
and
.=minim
then
;=crotchet
it's all about the rhytm.
happy to have found your art
L.
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