King Neptune
Banned
As it happens, I was quoting a passage from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin elseweb today. If you're not familiar with it, it's a book that won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and is generally considered one of the finest works of science fiction ever. Even outside of the genre, it's regarded as a major work of the twentieth century. Le Guin is a brilliant stylist, with a real clarity of voice and a sound ear for language. Last year, she was awarded the National Book Award's medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Here's the quote.
I make that four semicolons and two colons. Furthermore, the two colons are in the same sentence. If that's writing badly, may I write badly all my days, and do as badly from it as Le Guin.
Yes, I would also like to write that badly, but I already do. I was especially impressed with the colons; the semicolon use is rather ordinary.
The sentence structure that one uses reflects the kind of thinking that one engages in. I would finish that, if it weren't so uncomplimentary to some people. Read Styles and Structures by Charles Kay Smith for the rest of that and more.