writing

In middle school, I read “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” (and greatly enjoyed it); shortly afterward, I started writing semicolons at every opportunity I had.

This practice of mine has waned since—perhaps we are due for an old-fashioned, 19th century–style punctuation renaissance!

Melville and his semicolons; Dostoevsky and his emdashes—17-18th century English Writers with their Capitalization

all great bring em back

Redacted names like "Mr. F—"

You might like Mason & Dixon:

Building @warpcast and @farcaster / dad / like to read, cook, ski, code

I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

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ty—first time I've ever been recommended a book based on em dashes

i use all of these pretty consistently 😅

Moby Dick brings back childhood memories! There are so many great works from the 17th century!!