You are the product of the good and bad genes of your parents, and they of their parents, all the way back to Adam and Eve, the original big bangers.
While some work like crazy trying to square the circle, I'm content with italicizing the period.
Attention to detail yields a job well done. Mediocrity though is multitasking's son.
The autonomic nervous system takes care of breathing, heart rate, digestion; things we don't want to fiddle with. And, as we age, the senses and cognition too.
The mother of four or five children is looked upon with the same bemusement we once viewed the mothers of twelve or sixteen. The husband is still let off the hook.
I used to jokingly tell my wife she could ring her non-existent bell if she needed anything. Not so funnily now, she texts me.
Chairman Joe
It must be an Irish thing.
ReplyDeleteLittle known copy editing fact:
Every single period throughout James Joyce's /Ulysses/ is italicized except for the big one in "Ithaca", Part X, Section 17.
For the sake of the "little people," are you literal or fibbing? I can never tell, as you know, because I am Ms. Literal, having not been weaned on wee-ones social capital. I'm going to guess you are pullin' our Irish ears (that would be Joe M and 50% me). If not, give us the URL. I know you haven't read through the tome noting every period with a magnifying glass.
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DeleteDear fellow “Ulysses” Book Club member.
You can challenge Woe by writing a period in Word, then italicizing it, then comparing it with “Ithaca”, Part X, Section what he said, and seeing for yourself. That’s how you handle a yolker like spousey.
Deleteear fellow “Ulysses” Book Club member.
You can challenge Woe by writing a period in Word, then italicizing it, then comparing it with “Ithaca”, Part X, Section what he said, and seeing for yourself. That’s how you handle a yolker like spousey.
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Chairman JoeNovember 2, 2020 at 7:27 AM
By golly, Woe’s right!
“Ithaca” concludes with the infamous Dot which scholars have been bickering over for almost a century.
Joyce’s first French printer said, and I translate here, “That dot was harder to italicize than a comment in ‘The Wannaskan Almanac.’”
The printer was so frustrated that he refused to put any punctuation in the next chapter which led Joyce to say it is what it is and quit writing yes exclamation mark
Joyce then had to go through the entire run and put a period at the end of “Penelope.”
After that the poor man was about as much fun as a non-Irish wake.
Hopefully, this will be the last word on this subject period.
ReplyDeleteI always say that four kids is the new ten. Nice set of squibs, Chairman!
ReplyDeleteThat Woe is a wascally wabbit. ;)