unreal

jim beam said:

i still can't get over the length of that call! or the way my cheek
muscles are aching. ouch.

Context is everything, man.

Chalo

"Chalo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

jim beam said:

i still can't get over the length of that call! or the way my cheek
muscles are aching. ouch.

Context is everything, man.

Chalo

I figured JB hit the wrong e-mail address.

Phil H

jim beam said:

i still can't get over the length of that call! or the way my cheek
muscles are aching. ouch.

Never occurred to me before but Jim Beam and Jobst Brandt share the
same initials. Scary, huh?

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

<[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

jim beam said:

i still can't get over the length of that call! or the way my cheek
muscles are aching. ouch.

Never occurred to me before but Jim Beam and Jobst Brandt share the
same initials. Scary, huh?

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

Almost, one is upper case (JB) and the other is lower case (jb).
Warning, this is a troll :-)

Phil H

<[email hidden]> wrote: Never occurred to me before but Jim Beam and
Jobst Brandt share the

Quoted message said:

same initials. Scary, huh?

Nigel Grinter

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah, but have you noticed that your initials are NG?

Quoted message said:

Never occurred to me before but Jim Beam and Jobst Brandt share the
same initials. Scary, huh?

The word you were searching for is "creepy".

"

Good grief! You're right. Uuuuuuuh......

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

You're right. What's more, in addition to not being
shift-key-challenged, I imagine Jobst would probably insist on the use
of periods, viz: J. B.

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

Good grief! You're right. Uuuuuuuh......

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

Note: This response was intended for to Leo Lichtman and somehow got
misplaced.

Quoted message said:

You're right. What's more, in addition to not being
shift-key-challenged, I imagine Jobst would probably insist on the use
of periods, viz: J. B.

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

Dear N.G.,

We at Well-Written Purists, Inc., are appalled by the
hideous and unnecessary space betwixt a person's initials,
but will not stoop to insisting on the comma demanded by
common decency before Inc., much less the period that
signifies that viz. is the modern abbreviation for the Latin
videlicit.

John Dacey would inform us that the ancient Greek and Latin
authors scorned punctuation.

Two further remarks of interest will follow this lengthy
excerpt from The Devil's Dictionary:

FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed
by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the
various literary nations depended originally upon the social
habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several
countries. These creatures, which have always been
distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity
with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the
manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to
their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by
a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of,
the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature --
that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed
by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never
punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed,
without that abruption of the thought which comes from the
use of points. (We observe the same thing in children
to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and
beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of
individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development
characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these
primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the
modern investigator with his optical instruments and
chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers'
ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly
-- _Musca maledicta_. In transcribing these ancient MSS,
for the purpose of either making the work their own or
preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations,
later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks
they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable
enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the
work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally
avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in
their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of
their own household may be willing to grant, frequently
rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in
respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory.
Fully to understand the important services that flies
perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of
some popular novelist alongside a saucer of
cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit
brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to
the duration of exposure.

--Ambrose Bierce

First, note the antique beauty of the double-spaces after
the periods in the passage scanned above, a typist's habit
long since abandoned in the efficient computer age, but
sometimes retained in the early writings on RBT of Jobst
Brandt.

Second, note that Bierce, a writer noted for his elegant
style and careful diction, has happily penned a lengthy
exegesis that likens punctuation to fly [censored].

C.F.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

You're right. What's more, in addition to not being
shift-key-challenged, I imagine Jobst would probably insist on the use
of periods, viz: J. B.

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

Dear N.G.,

We at Well-Written Purists, Inc., are appalled by the
hideous and unnecessary space betwixt a person's initials,
but will not stoop to insisting on the comma demanded by
common decency before Inc., much less the period that
signifies that viz. is the modern abbreviation for the Latin
videlicit.

John Dacey would inform us that the ancient Greek and Latin
authors scorned punctuation.

Two further remarks of interest will follow this lengthy
excerpt from The Devil's Dictionary:

FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed
by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the
various literary nations depended originally upon the social
habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several
countries. These creatures, which have always been
distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity
with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the
manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to
their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by
a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of,
the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature --
that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed
by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never
punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed,
without that abruption of the thought which comes from the
use of points. (We observe the same thing in children
to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and
beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of
individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development
characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these
primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the
modern investigator with his optical instruments and
chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers'
ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly
-- _Musca maledicta_. In transcribing these ancient MSS,
for the purpose of either making the work their own or
preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations,
later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks
they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable
enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the
work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally
avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in
their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of
their own household may be willing to grant, frequently
rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in
respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory.
Fully to understand the important services that flies
perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of
some popular novelist alongside a saucer of
cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit
brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to
the duration of exposure.

--Ambrose Bierce

First, note the antique beauty of the double-spaces after
the periods in the passage scanned above, a typist's habit
long since abandoned in the efficient computer age, but
sometimes retained in the early writings on RBT of Jobst
Brandt.

Second, note that Bierce, a writer noted for his elegant
style and careful diction, has happily penned a lengthy
exegesis that likens punctuation to fly [censored].

A language with six noun cases; a plethora of verb forms;
gender forms; and strict rules forming them through
adjunction to the root has little need for punctuation. An
amoral language such as English where few distinguish
`who' and `whom', and fewer still do so correctly, needs
these fly specks. At least we have not got a plague of
diacritical marks.

--
Michael Press

Michael Press said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

You're right. What's more, in addition to not being
shift-key-challenged, I imagine Jobst would probably insist on the use
of periods, viz: J. B.

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

Dear N.G.,

We at Well-Written Purists, Inc., are appalled by the
hideous and unnecessary space betwixt a person's initials,
but will not stoop to insisting on the comma demanded by
common decency before Inc., much less the period that
signifies that viz. is the modern abbreviation for the Latin
videlicit.

John Dacey would inform us that the ancient Greek and Latin
authors scorned punctuation.

Two further remarks of interest will follow this lengthy
excerpt from The Devil's Dictionary:

FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed
by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the
various literary nations depended originally upon the social
habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several
countries. These creatures, which have always been
distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity
with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the
manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to
their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by
a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of,
the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature --
that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed
by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never
punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed,
without that abruption of the thought which comes from the
use of points. (We observe the same thing in children
to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and
beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of
individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development
characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these
primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the
modern investigator with his optical instruments and
chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers'
ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly
-- _Musca maledicta_. In transcribing these ancient MSS,
for the purpose of either making the work their own or
preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations,
later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks
they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable
enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the
work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally
avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in
their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of
their own household may be willing to grant, frequently
rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in
respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory.
Fully to understand the important services that flies
perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of
some popular novelist alongside a saucer of
cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit
brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to
the duration of exposure.

--Ambrose Bierce

First, note the antique beauty of the double-spaces after
the periods in the passage scanned above, a typist's habit
long since abandoned in the efficient computer age, but
sometimes retained in the early writings on RBT of Jobst
Brandt.

Second, note that Bierce, a writer noted for his elegant
style and careful diction, has happily penned a lengthy
exegesis that likens punctuation to fly [censored].

A language with six noun cases; a plethora of verb forms;
gender forms; and strict rules forming them through
adjunction to the root has little need for punctuation. An
amoral language such as English where few distinguish
`who' and `whom', and fewer still do so correctly, needs
these fly specks. At least we have not got a plague of
diacritical marks.

Dear Michael,

While proper punctuation is helpful in deciphering the
written word, the theory that English would fall into
unintelligible chaos without it occasionally falls afoul of
the fact that punctuation is often inaudible.

[Incidentally, there is no punctuation associated with the
often-overlooked difference between the subjective who and
the objective whom.]

(The lack of quotation marks around "who" and "whom" in the
second paragraph reminds us of the point of the first
paragraph concerning inaduibility. Similarly, the lack of
indentation in this majestic parenthesis reminds us that
electronic paper is so cheap that whole lines now serve to
separate paragraphs, where once we thriftily satisfied
ourselves by merely tapping the space bar three to five
times.)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

Michael Press said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

On 30 Apr 2006 15:53:12 -0700, [email hidden] wrote:

>You're right. What's more, in addition to not being
>shift-key-challenged, I imagine Jobst would probably insist on the use
>of periods, viz: J. B.
>
>Nigel Grinter
>Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
>wellspokenwheels.com

Dear N.G.,

We at Well-Written Purists, Inc., are appalled by the
hideous and unnecessary space betwixt a person's initials,
but will not stoop to insisting on the comma demanded by
common decency before Inc., much less the period that
signifies that viz. is the modern abbreviation for the Latin
videlicit.

John Dacey would inform us that the ancient Greek and Latin
authors scorned punctuation.

Two further remarks of interest will follow this lengthy
excerpt from The Devil's Dictionary:

FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed
by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the
various literary nations depended originally upon the social
habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several
countries. These creatures, which have always been
distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity
with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the
manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to
their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by
a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of,
the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature --
that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed
by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never
punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed,
without that abruption of the thought which comes from the
use of points. (We observe the same thing in children
to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and
beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of
individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development
characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these
primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the
modern investigator with his optical instruments and
chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers'
ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly
-- _Musca maledicta_. In transcribing these ancient MSS,
for the purpose of either making the work their own or
preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations,
later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks
they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable
enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the
work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally
avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in
their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of
their own household may be willing to grant, frequently
rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in
respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory.
Fully to understand the important services that flies
perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of
some popular novelist alongside a saucer of
cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit
brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to
the duration of exposure.

--Ambrose Bierce

First, note the antique beauty of the double-spaces after
the periods in the passage scanned above, a typist's habit
long since abandoned in the efficient computer age, but
sometimes retained in the early writings on RBT of Jobst
Brandt.

Second, note that Bierce, a writer noted for his elegant
style and careful diction, has happily penned a lengthy
exegesis that likens punctuation to fly [censored].

A language with six noun cases; a plethora of verb forms;
gender forms; and strict rules forming them through
adjunction to the root has little need for punctuation. An
amoral language such as English where few distinguish
`who' and `whom', and fewer still do so correctly, needs
these fly specks. At least we have not got a plague of
diacritical marks.

Dear Michael,

While proper punctuation is helpful in deciphering the
written word, the theory that English would fall into
unintelligible chaos without it occasionally falls afoul of
the fact that punctuation is often inaudible.

The spoken word differs markedly from the written word.
Sentences are much shorter with the spoken word.

Quoted message said:

[Incidentally, there is no punctuation associated with the
often-overlooked difference between the subjective who and
the objective whom.]

Punctuation is not the only aid to deciphering a language
that has abandoned strict typing. In languages with strict
typing, even word order becomes optional; prepostions
become subsumed in the decorations on root words. `Who'
and `whom' in English are vestigal; their use a
shibboleth.

Quoted message said:

(The lack of quotation marks around "who" and "whom" in the
second paragraph reminds us of the point of the first
paragraph concerning inaduibility. Similarly, the lack of
indentation in this majestic parenthesis reminds us that
electronic paper is so cheap that whole lines now serve to
separate paragraphs, where once we thriftily satisfied
ourselves by merely tapping the space bar three to five
times.)

What `lack of quotation marks around "who" and "whom"'?

All this reminds me of a passage from a novel:

`At Tolimundarni, on the fringe of the war zone itself,
they'd been thrown off the train by military police who
weren't falling for Y'sul's pre-emptively outrage-fuelled
arguments regarding the summit-like priority and blatant
extreme officiality of an expedition -- nay, a quest! --
he was undertaking with these -- yes, these, two --
famous, well-connected, honoured alian guests of
immeasurably high intrinsic pan-systemic cross-species
reputation, concerning a matter of the utmost import the
exact details of which he was sadly not at liberty to
divulge even to such patently important and obviously
discreet members of the armed forces as themselves, but
who would, nevertheless, he was sure, entirely understand
the significance of their mission and thus their clear
right to be accorded unhindered passage due to simple good
taste and a fine appreciation of natural justice and would
in no way be swayed by the fact that their cooperation
would be repaid in levels of subsequent kudos almost
beyond crediting ...'

--
Michael Press

On Mon, 01 May 2006 05:12:50 GMT, Michael Press
<[email hidden]> wrote:

[snip]

[Carl wrote]

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Dear Michael,

[first paragraph]

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

While proper punctuation is helpful in deciphering the
written word, the theory that English would fall into
unintelligible chaos without it occasionally falls afoul of
the fact that punctuation is often inaudible.

[second paragraph]

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

[Incidentally, there is no punctuation associated with the
often-overlooked difference between the subjective who and

^^^

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

the objective whom.]

^^^^

[third paragraph]

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

(The lack of quotation marks around "who" and "whom" in the

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

second paragraph reminds us of the point of the first

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

paragraph concerning inaudibility. Similarly, the lack of
indentation in this majestic parenthesis reminds us that
electronic paper is so cheap that whole lines now serve to
separate paragraphs, where once we thriftily satisfied
ourselves by merely tapping the space bar three to five
times.)

What `lack of quotation marks around "who" and "whom"'?

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

41 said:

Quoted message said:

Never occurred to me before but Jim Beam and Jobst Brandt share the
same initials. Scary, huh?

The word you were searching for is "creepy".

"

What the F... are you all talking about? Are you all part of a secret
society?

In article
<[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

41 said:

Quoted message said:

Never occurred to me before but Jim Beam and Jobst Brandt share the
same initials. Scary, huh?

The word you were searching for is "creepy".

"

What the F... are you all talking about? Are you all part of a secret
society?

Public forum. No secrecy possible.

--
Michael Press

Michael Press said:

In article
<[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

41 said:

[email hidden] wrote:

> Never occurred to me before but Jim Beam and Jobst Brandt share the
> same initials. Scary, huh?

The word you were searching for is "creepy".

"

What the F... are you all talking about? Are you all part of a secret
society?

Public forum. No secrecy possible.

Then you are all talking in code or something. Maybe you are all making
fun of "W" but trying to keep Mark Hickey out of the discussion.

Quoted message said:

--
Michael Press

Quoted message said:

Michael Press said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

On 30 Apr 2006 15:53:12 -0700, [email hidden] wrote:

>You're right. What's more, in addition to not being
>shift-key-challenged, I imagine Jobst would probably insist on the use
>of periods, viz: J. B.
>
>Nigel Grinter
>Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
>wellspokenwheels.com

Dear N.G.,

We at Well-Written Purists, Inc., are appalled by the
hideous and unnecessary space betwixt a person's initials,
but will not stoop to insisting on the comma demanded by
common decency before Inc., much less the period that
signifies that viz. is the modern abbreviation for the Latin
videlicit.

John Dacey would inform us that the ancient Greek and Latin
authors scorned punctuation.

(Lengthy quotation removed)

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

First, note the antique beauty of the double-spaces after
the periods in the passage scanned above, a typist's habit
long since abandoned in the efficient computer age, but
sometimes retained in the early writings on RBT of Jobst
Brandt.

(snip)

A language with six noun cases; a plethora of verb forms;
gender forms; and strict rules forming them through
adjunction to the root has little need for punctuation. An
amoral language such as English where few distinguish
`who' and `whom', and fewer still do so correctly, needs
these fly specks. At least we have not got a plague of
diacritical marks.

Dear Michael,

While proper punctuation is helpful in deciphering the
written word, the theory that English would fall into
unintelligible chaos without it occasionally falls afoul of
the fact that punctuation is often inaudible.

[Incidentally, there is no punctuation associated with the
often-overlooked difference between the subjective who and
the objective whom.]

(The lack of quotation marks around "who" and "whom" in the
second paragraph reminds us of the point of the first
paragraph concerning inaduibility. Similarly, the lack of
indentation in this majestic parenthesis reminds us that
electronic paper is so cheap that whole lines now serve to
separate paragraphs, where once we thriftily satisfied
ourselves by merely tapping the space bar three to five
times.)

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Dear Carl,

Oh dear. I try to avoid ever criticising grammar or spelling as it
inevitably sets one up to be embarrassed. ("Let he who is without
sin....." etc.) My intention was purely to make a (feeble) joke. As
to whether punctuation (and some of the other formalities that abound
in written communications) is useful, your point:

Quoted message said:

"While proper punctuation is helpful in deciphering the
written word, the theory that English would fall into
unintelligible chaos without it occasionally falls afoul of
the fact that punctuation is often inaudible."

is valid, but the key work is "often". In "Eats, Shoots And Leaves",
Lynn Truss gives many examples where these innocent and unspoken
fly-droppings contribute significantly to meaning and, when neglected
or misplaced, can have consequences, usually humorous, but sometimes
catastrophic.

That's enough from me - many people are already convinced I have far
too much time on my hands.

Best wishes,

Nigel Grinter
Well-Spoken Wheels Inc.
wellspokenwheels.com

Carl Fogel said:

Dear N.G.,

Quoted message said:

We at Well-Written Purists, Inc., are appalled by the hideous and
unnecessary space betwixt a person's initials, but will not stoop to
insisting on the comma demanded by common decency before Inc., much
less the period that signifies that viz. is the modern abbreviation
for the Latin videlicit.

Quoted message said:

John Dacey would inform us that the ancient Greek and Latin authors
scorned punctuation.

Quoted message said:

Two further remarks of interest will follow this lengthy excerpt
from The Devil's Dictionary:

Quoted message said:

FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed
by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the
various literary nations depended originally upon the social
habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several
countries. These creatures, which have always been
distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity
with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the
manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to
their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by
a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of,
the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature --
that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed
by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never
punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed,
without that abruption of the thought which comes from the
use of points. (We observe the same thing in children
to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and
beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of
individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development
characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these
primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the
modern investigator with his optical instruments and
chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers'
ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly
-- _Musca maledicta_. In transcribing these ancient MSS,
for the purpose of either making the work their own or
preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations,
later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks
they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable
enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the
work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally
avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in
their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of
their own household may be willing to grant, frequently
rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in
respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory.
Fully to understand the important services that flies
perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of
some popular novelist alongside a saucer of
cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit
brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to
the duration of exposure.

Quoted message said:

--Ambrose Bierce

Quoted message said:

First, note the antique beauty of the double-spaces after the
periods in the passage scanned above, a typist's habit long since
abandoned in the efficient computer age, but sometimes retained in
the early writings on RBT of Jobst Brandt.

Quoted message said:

Second, note that Bierce, a writer noted for his elegant style and
careful diction, has happily penned a lengthy exegesis that likens
punctuation to fly [censored].

Quoted message said:

C.F.

Hard to imagine such a text being written without paragraph breaks. I
am told this is "modern" but I doubt it. How did this piece become
one solid "thought" so to speak. When I encounter such writing, my
first impression is that I can't hold my breath long enough survive
with an idea that must be contained therein.

http://www2.actden.com/Writ_Den/tips/paragrap/index.htm

Jobst Brandt