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“On the one hand, the parenthesis is disposable.”
“Punctuation was also a channel for exploring interior worlds: the mind, memory, emotions.”
“Parentheses encase words, keeping vulnerable admissions safe and visually private.”
“Yet, considering how his own life was cut short so tragically at the height of his social and literary success, it’s hard not to entertain interpretations of the interrupted sentence as an eerie omen.”
“The bracket interruptions perform the delays he is experiencing in his own life due to his love for Pamela and the disguise he upholds to be able to court her.”
“Philip Sidney’s brackets provided a blueprint for elevated expression, and writers loved imitating him.”
“Crucially, though, in the parts of the new and old Arcadia s that correspond, nearly all 2,400 brackets are identical.”
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“Two princes meet two princesses, and much drama ensues, including multiple disguises, poetry competitions, shipwrecks, abductions, a climactic court case, war, and, much, much more dangerous than all of those adventures combined: love and lust.”
“And perhaps it was precisely the opposite: Writing had become so powerful at expression that it could now subvert itself without losing any of its magic.”
“The question is rather how.”
“Parentheses, turning the inside of a sentence out and the outside in, ask readers to shuttle back and forth, exercising mental agility that nurtures a flexible set of thoughts and feelings.”
“The parenthesis cuts, but it also stitches the before and after together again, unfolding left and right from the typographical boundaries of the punctuation mark.”
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“This paradoxical potential created a certain nervousness in style recommendations.”
“On the other hand, it is “grafted” onto the host sentence, as Puttenham continues, as if it were a branch of another tree that improves on its new stem precisely because it is foreign.”