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Even as you get the habit of Riddley's vocabulary and his lack of punctuation, you still have to read more slowly than you are used to doing.

There is no elitism in his poetry; and as for the lack of punctuation, you don't even notice it after a few lines.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss Profile £6.99, pp228 If you haven't already picked up a copy of Lynne Truss's paean to accurate punctuation, you have either been on another planet or are in denial.

(Italics? Direct quotes? Indirect speech?) He gently mocks the successive literary-historical advances proposing less artificial ways of doing so – as if by changing the punctuation you could vanish the difference between printed prose and neural activity.

If you're willing to spice up your alphabet with some punctuation, you can still express a wide range of complex thoughts.

To indicate this through correct punctuation, you should open the quote for the first paragraph, write down what the character says, and end the paragraph with either a period, a question, or an exclamation mark.

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You care about the punctuation or you don't, and Hemingway did.

You are a celebrated poet unsure of your punctuation, so you decide to write to the greatest scientist you know to ask him to correct the punctuation of a poetry book you're preparing for press.

Typing is an acquired taste and you will miss spaces and other punctuation if you go fast enough.

You also need to speak your punctuation, so you'll need to, for example, say "period" at the end of every sentence.

'Yeah.' 'Course not... unless you're frightened of an intelligent film-maker.' I'm still making the sort of punctuation marks you make with your shoulders after somebody inveigles you like that, when he surprises me with a question.

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