The above paragraph is obviously exaggerated for comic effect (but only slightly), but it can't be underestimated how important tea is to many people in Britain (and beyond of course).
And, this week, Spider-Man was revealed to have something of an acolyte in Justice Elena Kagan, of the Supreme Court, whose majority opinion in Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises demonstrated, in its concluding paragraph, how to properly cite a comic book—"Cf.
He expresses himself in the orderly paragraphs of a former high-school debater, but with deft comic timing and a gift for shtick.
And while his article was 99percentt lavish praise, the last paragraph left us feeling as though Willie wasted more than half his career on one of the most extravagantly illustrated comic strips in history — Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny".
Yet Amis's father, Kingsley, used semicolons to superb comic effect (vide the hangover scene in "Lucky Jim"), and V. S. Naipaul drops them regularly, like tiny bombs of Alka-Seltzer, into his paragraphs of dyspeptic prose.
Sentences, paragraphs, pages.
We're reading paragraphs.
Subsequent paragraphs renumbered.
