Brian Kelly

Things were not going well in Madrid. Prince Charles and the Duke of Buckingham had conspired to travel in disguise to Spain and somehow wed the Protestant Charles to the Roman Catholic Maria Anna, the Spanish king’s sister, and in so doing put an end to centuries of tension between the two…

If, as Kurt Vonnegut believed, the only reason to use a semicolon is to show that you’ve been to college, what does it say when someone uses a pilcrow? Or, for that matter, an interrobang, a manicule, or an octothorpe? While this book doesn’t make any judgments about the punctuation one chooses to…