Keith Houston
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks (eBook, ePUB)

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An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poeticshighly recommended.Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bibleor the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and...

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