It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you didn’t get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer.
Notes on Punctuation – a charming meditation on the subtleties of language by the great physician, etymologist, poet, and essayist Lewis Thomas.
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