The play and motion picture Wit by Margaret Edson fixates on a poem by John Donne, Death be not Proud.
The fixation is on the last line of the poem:
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
The assertion is that Donne did not intend the use of a semicolon, and converting it to a comma significantly alters the meaning, profoundly uplifting the aura of spirituality.
This is a good catch! The choice of beat here to my ear is meant to capture both a sense of urgency (beating a drum to set the pace for rowers) and beating upwind (tacking frequently). The whole article feels a little undercooked and peevishly underinformed for the New Yorker.
I think the real question is why you are starting a new paragraph after every sentence It makes your posts read as stilted and a bit difficult to follow Do you still use question marks if you ask a question or an exclamation point Curious to what you do when you write on paper but let me know
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 34.7 ms ] threadThat was not on my top-5 list of things that may be in that article.
Dang, says tomhow, is the better moderator.
- But when, Lord, when?!
- Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.
- Ahhhh.
Shouldn't this one be "Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with Me in Paradise?"
But it's still a good example of where a comma (or lack of) can make all the difference.
The fixation is on the last line of the poem:
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
The assertion is that Donne did not intend the use of a semicolon, and converting it to a comma significantly alters the meaning, profoundly uplifting the aura of spirituality.
The play:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wit_(play)
The poem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Be_Not_Proud
Discussion:
https://lavelleporter.com/2015/02/13/readingwit/
Don't ask me why, perhaps an OCD of the many I suffer, but I don't see the point of that if a new paragraph is two lines below
And they look ugly in web pages for titles, feature blocks, testimonials, etc
AI likes to use them everywhere when building web apps. I hate that and have to go find/replace every dot next to a closing tag
I'll have to refine my skills.md "Don't end paragraphs with a period"