First there was the Word. And then there was the parenthesis. Followed by a sly grammatical
mutation that made the demons sing, the goddesses moan, the angels come. Be not the period. Dangle your modifiers. Split the legs of your infinitives. And strive, always, for the ellipses...

---July 15, 2003 blog entry, http://distantsun.blogspot.com/