Just a grammatical ornament 2
By Steve
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you see what a tough job i have. i wouldn't want it any other way though. i mean, i like the universe of grammatical signs. The exclamation mark looks like a bat. you can really get a fantastic double out of it. you're on your way to seducing the reader. i know it's devious, but what am i supposed to do? just let the words do all the talking. a period indicates an end to a thought. it's a very boring sign. the question mark wonders if the reader is on the same page as the writer. "Did you ever explore the idea that we could be twins?" "Did you consider the fact that amphibians may not spend the same amount of time in land and water?" there are the quotation marks which i like almost as much as paretheses. quotation marks indicate a speaking voice. i tend to see them as abstract ears, opening to the sound of speech on one end and then closing on the other end. as for the comma, i have almost nothing to say. a comma is a stop sign i suppose. a comma connects two thoughts or clings them together. but now we are back to parentheses. they really are lovely creatures! there's something about them that is quite undefinable. i can't quite put my finger on it.
"(!)"
what did i just say? is it some exciting thing that i am hiding within myself. i just can't share it with other people because they would ruin it. i alone have understood something that others only vaguely comprehended. or i have been completely illuminated by a thought. a lightbulb has lit up.
")))))))))!(((((((((("
would this be some eerie idea that is profoundly disturbing me? the sound of it is unsettling.
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i think this might be what people call an uncomfortable silence.
(.)
i know this is vulgar, but this would be the symbol of menstruation. i'm just a grammatical chameleon. forgive.
i think that you get my point. i serve a purpose. people often forget that it's ok to keep things private. these days, everyone is so willing to tell their life story. why? no one really cares except if it's amusing. the lovely curve of a parenthesis. it seals off... it creates a space that is private.
Consider this: ),(.
the first one is a sideways smile, the second one a frown. they also look like slender moons.
excuse me (coughing). i'm not just a grammatical sign looking for attention. i've noticed that i've had to use words, many of them to express myself. i am so ashamed... i have imagined a world of grammatical signs and i imagined the night sky. i don't know why i am so into myself. sometimes i imagine the opening parethesis as a hammock. I lie down and sleep under the night sky and all i see are precious periods brilliantly twinking, the parenthesis of the moon glowing, etc. a world without misunderstandings... a pure world.
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