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Monday, March 07, 2016

8 Classic Novels Reduced To Their Punctuation

What's a novel without its words? Just punctuation. But when you take those lines of commas, periods, exclamation points, and quotes, then arrange them in a big spiral, you can still tell something of the character of the original work: the endlessly curious and expository quality of Ishmael's narrative in Moby Dick, for example, or the titular wonder of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.


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