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I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).
Sarah Vowell (Take the Cannoli)
Still all "realities" and "fantasies" can take on form only by means of writing, in which outwardness and innerness, the world and I, experience and fantasy appear composed of the same verbal material. The polymorphic visions of the eyes and the spirit are contained in uniform lines of small or capital letters, periods, commas, parentheses - pages of signs, packed as closely together as grains of sand, representing the many-colored spectacle of the world on a surface that is always the same and always different, like dunes shifted by the desert wind.
Italo Calvino (Six Memos for the Next Millennium)
The line in question ends in a word that would not be legal as the end of a statement, such as a period or an infix operator. The next line begins with a word that cannot start a statement. The line ends while inside parentheses (...) or brackets [...], because these cannot contain multiple statements anyway.
Martin Odersky (Programming in Scala)
Many of us spend hours filling out forms on computers—forms that require names, dates, addresses, telephone numbers, monetary sums, and other information in a fixed, rigid format. Worse, often we are not even told the correct format until we get it wrong. Why not figure out the variety of ways a person might fill out a form and accommodate all of them? Some companies have done excellent jobs at this, so let us celebrate their actions. Consider Microsoft’s calendar program. Here, it is possible to specify dates any way you like: “November 23, 2015,” “23 Nov. 15,” or “11.23.15.” It even accepts phrases such as “a week from Thursday,” “tomorrow,” “a week from tomorrow,” or “yesterday.” Same with time. You can enter the time any way you want: “3:45 PM,” “15.35,” “an hour,” “two and one-half hours.” Same with telephone numbers: Want to start with a + sign (to indicate the code for international dialing)? No problem. Like to separate the number fields with spaces, dashes, parentheses, slashes, periods? No problem. As long as the program can decipher the date, time, or telephone number into a legal format, it is accepted. I hope the team that worked on this got bonuses and promotions.
Donald A. Norman (The Design of Everyday Things)
I love you period. Do you love me question mark? Please please exclamation point I want to hold you in parentheses. These lyrics prompted Jeannine M. San Giovanni to write: “This song makes me sick to my colon. I’d like to kick the author in his asterisk.
Dave Barry (Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs)
8. Body Awareness Your body is your barometer. Learning to understand the signals from your body will be one of the greatest gifts you give yourself for a lifetime. In shadow work, it is a key that will open you up to the subtle messages that must be acknowledged. Denying the signals of the body- I will say more about these signals a little later-will leave you missing the most obvious clues. I want to reference two sources just for you here: Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol K. Truman, and The Body Keeps the Score Brain Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD. Your body, mind, and heart are tied together. You have all the necessary bells and whistles that you need to get a sense of what is going on behind the scenes. What you need to do is to learn how to read these signals and not try to stop them or change them. They are a gift, a blessing for your wholeness. HOW DOES THIS SERVE YOU IN RETURNING TO WHOLENESS? The body is your most dependable biofeedback machine once you learn how to use it and commit to listening to it. Things can get by our mind, are thinking, and we are able to lie parentheses even to ourselves exclamation parentheses, but the body never lies. When you are done rationalizing, your body will tell you the truth. This is specifically why I mean your feelings and your body is not a promising idea period to none of your feelings slash emotions is to distance yourself from clues that your body is trying to tune you into.
Michelle Wadleigh (Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration)