ps- she was a goth chick— the kind you like


Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality.
We slowly drove—He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility—
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess—in the Ring—
We passed the fields of Gazing Grain—
We passed the Setting Sun—
Or rather—He passed Us—
The Dews drew quivering and chill—
For only Gossamer, my Gown—
My Tippet—only Tulle—
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground—
The Roof was scarcely visible—
The Cornice—in the Ground—
Since then—'tis Centuries—and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity—

The kind of goth chicks I like probably won't die virgins, but I'll give Emily a few points for depressing content.
I had to do a report on her in school once.

I have semi-colon cancer and for some reason I love the question mark.
Dashes and parenthesis are also pretty rad.

Susan Howe's My Emily Dickenson is the only critical work I can think of which anybody really needs to read. An excerpt:
" Emily Dickinson took the scraps from the separate "higher" female education many bright women of her time were increasingly resenting, combined them with voracious and "unladylike" outside reading, and used the combination. She built a new poetic form from her fractured sense of being eternally on inteIlectual borders, where confident masculine voices buzzed an alluring and inaccessible discourse, backward through history into aboriginal anagogy. Pulling pieces of geometry, geology, alchemy, philosophy, politics, biography, biology, mythology, and philology from alien territory, a "sheltered" woman audaciously invented a new grammar grounded in humility and hesitation. HESITATE from the Latin, meaning to stick. Stammer. To hold back in doubt, have difficulty speaking. "He may pause but he must not hesitate"-Ruskin. Hesitation circled back and surrounded everyone in that confident age of aggressive industrial expansion and brutal Empire building. Hesitation and Separation. The Civil War had split American in two. He might pause, She hesitated. Sexual, racial, and geographical separation are at the heart of Definition."

A prude? Hell, she basically invented a grammar! Don't let anyone tell you Emily Dickenson isn't still experimental poetry.

Anyway, my favourite is the "M" dash.
I can't generate it on here but if you open WORD and type two words--and in between them type two dashes with no spaces then you've got it. It is fucking beautiful! So long....
I also love the Hamza in Arabic (ء) which can be a letter in itself, but it can also be used as a diacritic! It means "make a glottal stop" which is that sound that replaces the "tt"in Cockney English "butter", or the throat sound in "uh oh".

em dash:
—
M
N
same width as the M

My American Issues teacher had a fantasy band, called The Schwa Sound (backwards & upsidedown "e"). His reason for it was because everytime someone would chant for them, it would be "uh, uh, uh, uh!"

wiki forgot to mention the giant wooden staves that they wield!

--disgusting!

I love tildes!


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I took on the ellipses followed by a question mark from reading Wayne Coyne's bizarre liner notes.

Gives that kind of stoner-esque hanging confusion that is so beautiful... ?

It's much better when they're touching, though
...?

I like it when people spell "you're" and "they're" correctly.

True.

I'm partial to the period--if only to disrespect E.E. Cummings. The smug bastard.

¿My favourite punctuation? ¡It's the way they use the inverted question and exclamation marks in Spanish!

till his noodle sink or swim by that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia: all those red raddled obeli cayennepeppercast over text, calling unnecessary attention to errors, omissions, repetitions, and misalignments.

you should have put that quote in the summarize sex life thread. :D

peep inside the cerebralised saucepan.