Punctuation adventures

[regshoe]

D. K. Broster's liking for dramatic . . . ellipses . . . has been remarked upon before, especially in The Wounded Name, which has about 6.4 ellipses per 1,000 words on average. Chantemerle, of which I am currently formatting a text file, is not so dramatic in general (about 3 per 1,000 words so far), though it does get pretty ellipsis-heavy in a few particularly emotional passages; and unlike Imre the punctuation is more or less perfectly standard, so I was slightly surprised on being confronted during today's text-corrections chapter with this monster:



Nineteen dots! Truly dramatically significant; clearly Broster and Taylor were just saving their ellipsis stores for where it really mattered. I must remember this for when I'm next writing TWN fic. . . . . . .