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Originally Posted by jekylljuice
I've never actually read any of his books (I know - the shame  ) but I have nothing but respect for anyone with gall enough to comment that the key to being a great writer is to "never use semi-colons". |
I have to tell you, reading that statement has sent me in to something approaching an existential crisis, because I'm a total semicolon evangelist; if I write three sentences, you can bet two of them will use one. I love the damn things; I think they really help the flow and structuring of a paragraph, but hearing this from one of the most repsected authors of the 20th Century has opened up a large internal conflict for me. I'm going to have to take another look at the essay I'm writing...
Rest In Peace, Kurt Vonnegut: I never got to reading any of your books, but you've just managed to really screw me up there anyway.
