One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in ones dues, in short, without paying. – Michel De Certeau
There is no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks…. Exclamation points are like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats, colons dominant seventh chords… – Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), “Punctuation Marks,” Notes to Literature, V