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I like.
punctuation.

a lot.

and needless breaks in the structure of sentences.

as though. it. adds some sort of meaning. to otherwise meaningless

words.

and as it so happens, so do my friends.

breaking up words with brackets, hyphens, commas, periods.

Why?

who the hell knows.

perhaps because we have read too many sarah kane plays.

too many beckett plays.

too many.

many.

because, in the end, what does any of it actually mean? when audiences see one of our broken word plays, they can't tell that it was written with only three words to a page, broken apart by a semicolon after the second word.

what difference does it make if i space the words out.

i suppose, in most instances, the actor reading the text will glean some meaning behind the breaks. interpret a way that the dialog was 'meant' to be read.

and perhaps i do mean for it to be read in that particular, peculiar way.

Indeed, in the past, i have written text that cascaded down the page, indenting as it went along, and i did intend for it to roll off the tongue as though it were water traveling over a rocky brook, often times being spoken by multiple people, each a rock in the broken stream of the sentence.

but then again. how much of it was simply me trying to be artsy.

??

let's call it half and half and leave it at that.

there is meaning. but sometimes it just looks cooler to play with punctuation.

period; the. end.