Photo by [noone]I’m reading Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut.  It’s a strange book, but I’m finding it funny and interesting and absolutely worth anyone’s time.  I love reading just about anything he writes.  He is so entertaining and so readable—which can’t be said for most luminaries of literary fiction.  It really doesn’t matter what he is writing about.  He is deservedly considered one of the greatest American writers ever.

He gives his opinion of semicolons towards the end of the Timequake.

Let me note that Kilgore Trout and I have never used semicolons.  They don’t do anything, don’t suggest anything.  They are transvestite hermaphrodites.

Ponder that for a while.

Tags: authors, books, grammar, Vonnegut, Writing