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The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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Distinguishing marks

Back in my college days, when I was a pedantically obsessive copy editor on the student newspaper, a friend claimed to have overheard me...

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Comma-counting across the centuries

I’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...