After waiting more than an hour for this music store in the historic district of Bratislava, Slovakia to reopen, I had to move on empty-handed. Perhaps I’ll find some manuscript paper elsewhere.
However, a few doors down there was a small shop with this interesting item:
I’m not sure if this a decommissioned Soviet-era pencil launcher, or a repurposed pencil holder. Either way, it puts an entirely new spin on “pencil fighting”.*
*I’m sorry, but I just cannot bring myself to place the period inside of the quotation marks.
Update:
Is that ♥︎ BRATISLAVA behind the pencils?
I admire the reasoning that goes with logical punctuation, but I’m keeping my punctuation “old school.”
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Yes, that’s what it says there.
re: punctuation — this is one particular rule that I apply very inconsistently, which I realize is a bad idea but I can’t seem to stick with one or the other. If the quoted passage is more or less a sentence, it looks OK to me to put the period inside — there is enough of a phrase there, and the period is “operating” on everything. But when it’s a single word or maybe just two words, it’s as if the period has been hijacked. Or maybe, it’s the punctuation equivalent of a privateer.
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And with logical punctuation, one is always having to decide which way things should be. I like the consistency of illogical punctuation. Happy travels.
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