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War for the West's avatar

I noticed and don't care. Great piece. I would like so see capitalization though, I find I lose the context sometimes due to not seeing the beginning of new sentence, even with the periods.

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kertch's avatar

Just be grateful that Gato doesn't do a full e e cummings and drop punctuation as well.

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War for the West's avatar

Not as bad as DelanyтАЩs DhalgrenтАжI lost my taste for experimental writing long ago.

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kertch's avatar

I have never read it. I'll keep it off my list.

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War for the West's avatar

Any time an artist gets too focused on form the creative beauty is lost. Dhalgren felt like 'anti-art' at a certain point. I made my self suffer by finishing it, thought I 'had to' read it, ya know? I was young and thought this was part of developing myself. All it developed in me was a revulsion with any self-conscious art.

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Bandit's avatar

Yep. That's hard to read.

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Bobby's avatar

Capitalization? What's that? As you can see from the grammar test, we are busy learning very important stuff. Maybe they teach that in graduate school.

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Bob Thebuilder's avatar

Is the absence of capital letters a nod to the archie and mehitabel comics created by newspaperman Don Marquis? The premise the was that a cockroach, however literary, had no ability to depress the shift key.

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Juju's avatar

Yes and neither does a cat. ItтАЩs a clever, funny feature we have all grown to love about Gato тЭдя╕П

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Sarah G's avatar

Excepting of course "CAPITALS AT LAST" in the archie and mehitabel compendium

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Michelle's avatar

Na no way to caps, itтАЩs his stick mang

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

It's a "tool". A handy one...that I use myself, at times, to communicate with my employees.

It surprising no one ever considers that.

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AndyinBC's avatar

There just must be some clever wordplay on the quote enclosed "tool".

Now, if I could just ...

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