semicolon

is nothing but proof that the author has been to college.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

is a burp, a hiccup, a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m. grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

is a kind of punctuation that is always a shot in the dark.

Every semicolon I have ever used has been a shot in the dark

is a drooping moustache with a gamey taste.

An exclamation point looks like an index finger raised in warning.... A colon, says Karl Kraus, opens its mouth wide: woe to the writer who does not fill it with something nourishing. Visually, the semicolon looks like a drooping moustache; I am even more aware of its gamey taste. With self-satisfied peasant cunning, German quotation marks [« »] lick their lips.... Every text, even the most densely woven, cites them of its own accord — friendly spirits whose bodiless presence nourishes the body of language.

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semicolon