Grammar is not just what you saw in second grade about where to place a point. There are many tricks about grammar that we should know about but our consumed selves don't let us understand that there is more to grammar that correct punctuation.
In the essay Q As In Quotation, by The Bars of Atlantis, this is demonstrated through the meaningfulness of quotation marks. I bet you only thought of quotations as a way of citing text. Well, beyond that "once the first quotation has penetrated, you are no longer your own master" (page 75). As soon as the reader has seen the first quotation, he will understand the text not to be yours. Thus, making different suppositions about originality in the author. It is very important to make it clear that quotations aren't like semi colons that shouldn't be used with frequency. But like all things, they are bad in excess. Too much of just one quotation may be to exhausting to read, leading the reader off track of what was meant in the original text.
Just remember: quotations are very useful, but use them moderately and correctly.
There is no statement without some history, of course. This is why Nicholson Baker decided to tell it. Yes, the history of punctuation: Survival of the Fittest. With and without punctuation there are many puns and jokes made. This means that the lack or the correct use of punctuation defines what the author is saying.
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