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Nathaniel Hawthorne


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So many commas.

 

So

many

commas.

 

And in places they don't really belong!

 

My poor, fragile sanity...

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I don't remember anything about excessive commas, but I do remember how I loathed The Scarlet Letter when I had to read it for school. *shudder*

 

~B~

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Literarily, he seemed to take pleasure in the art of trolling grammar nazis. Pretty good, especially considering that he's been dead for nearly 150 years. :P

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@Ballom: His sentence structure lends itself to really unwieldy, comma-littered, prose. Long sentences often need a lot of punctuation. Plus, there are some instances of comma abuse, such as "the reason, that [whatever]."

 

@Sumiki: He haunts us even from his grave!

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