Citatio

Ok. I will start by letting all my readers know (AKA: none) that I do not feel like writing this blog. Why? one may ask. Well here is why. I wrote the whole blog entry and it did not safe. Nevertheless I will write it again.

Lets start with Nicholson Baker's essay Survival of the Fittest. That tittle sounds extremely familiar, give me a moment to locate it. Oh yes The Selfish Gene, and Charles Darwin. Takes me back to all those hours reading an extremely... scientific book. Now it all makes sense, I get why Barker said the following in his essay, "... commas have been around for at least as long as electrons." That comparison finally makes sense. So moving on into every students nightmare, the nine basic marks of punctuations: comma, dash, hyphen, period, parenthesis, semi - colon, colon, space, and capital letter. The funny thing about these is the fact that while some of us are killing ourselves trying to write a 10,000 word essay (using these marks correctly), others are doing "vaguely irritating attempts to supply a sideways facil expression." Translating what you are writing into a familiar register. Punctuations can also completely change the meaning of a sentence. This shows how powerful they are. I believe that a writer   that can control these nine punctuation marks I mention, has the power over the reader and his understanding of the text. In the picture below shows how much a a colon a comma can affect the significance of a sentence.

I never thought one could write as much of quotations until I read Q as in Quotation by Durs Grubein. Now that is what I call, bizarre. They treat the "" as if it where an art, and one might even consider it so. The writer starts this essay as if using such one must not name (quotations) was leap of faith, the reader might even get the feeling as if you were reading a novel, a dramatic one. I'm not going to deny it this essay does make you understand "Why?" Why quotate is a question answered, and I do agree with the author. When quoting it enriches the writers point of view, and it does give the reader the sense that what they are reading is legitimate. But I have to admit that I found 9gag expressions much more exciting for learning. ;)