Bookish Diversions: Drama with the Comma
Punctuation Past and Present, Finding New Books, Realizing You’ll Never Read Them All, More
¶ Drama with the comma. We’ve already covered the history of the much-maligned semicolon. What about the rest of those glyphs, marks, ticks, and signs? “Punctuation, like any other cultural production, has a tumultuous history full of public good and personal interest.”
¶ What about the mark heading these entries, ¶? It’s called a pilcrow. K…
