(In response to a call from elck, already taken up by several of my betters.)
Contemplating writing a sentence with no commas and inevitably wondering whether he can use parentheses (not just to set aside any old subordinate clause but also to cheat because nobody notices a missing comma after a right paren) he succumbs in the instant of writing the stem verb to a sharp pang of deep tedium (surely the worst possible moment for same) and after contemplating using an unabstractable verb such as to disembowl or to f*ck or to wrench he realizes that (grammar being a little death) he can satisfy his violent desire by wrenching the object from a transitive verb and therefore resolves foreverafter to put.
Yours is most meta of the versions presented!
A delight.
:)
Posted by: elck | 2004.11.14 at 15:24