Deadbeat Commas

Somehow I got through college without reading anything by Gertrude Stein and now I really wish I had. Recently I was introduced to her stylized writing in the book, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey. Florey describes Stein as a fan of sentence diagramming, but not exactly a follower of the proper grammar it is meant to teach.

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