Marie Murray considers the dash:
Taking time out to consider the dash is therapeutic. It is an indulgence that is available and free. For the dash is a positive signal. It is going somewhere — a mark on the move — not something that arrests development of the sentence, but something that elaborates and expands, deviates and delights, in one stroke.Read more:
When times are tough, we need to dash (Irish Times)
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I am fond of dashes, which seem less of an interruption than parenthetical phrases and ap..oh, what are those called? dammit, where's my checklist?!...
Can't talk further now; must dash!
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