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Kevin Alfred Strom · 8w
Lack of proper punctuation can lead to serious misunderstandings. "Let's eat, Jerry." "Let's eat Jerry." "How do you do, Sally?" "How do you do Sally?" And the infamous "Eats shoots and leaves." vs...
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Have you read any Cormac McCarthy? Genuinely curious if you think he is able to convey the rhythm of speech.

I'm a big Cormac fan so may be biased but I feel like he is able to convey the rhythm of everything, not just speech, better than almost any other writer.
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Kevin Alfred Strom · 8w
No, I haven't. I did look up his biography and it looks like he was in Alaska in the Air Force at around the same time as my father. I wonder if they ever met. I will try him out.