The title of Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon is without a vocative comma. Now that our household has a new copy of the book (where’s the old one?), I can attest that the text, too, is comma-free. And nearly punctation-free: just one em-dash and two pairs of quotation marks, for the quiet old lady’s hushes.
Goodnight stars
Goodnight air
Goodnight commas everywhere
Monday, February 3, 2020
Goodnight commas
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No "goodnight telephone" to be found. /trivia
ReplyDeleteThat’s curious — thanks. And there is “Goodnight light,” though the lamp is never named. The more I read this book, the more mysterious and evocative it gets.
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