an ode to punctuation capitalization and more

forget the tyranny of compositional elements that are there only to make readers lives easier

it was only a couple hundred years ago that an italian typesetter introduced the comma i know this because i was researching an article about the oxford comma please read it here https://readmedium.com/breaking-news-lawyer-settles-oxford-comma-debate-14598f179490 youll find that ive solved a pretty important problem if i do say so myself anyway back to the point of todays article people will tell you not to let your creative spirit be crushed by little things like grammar and punctuation and capitalization theyll tell you not to lose sleep over placement of apostrophes paragraph breaks and the visual appeal of your work after all your worth as a writer is not based on the power of your spellchecker is it no you want to be judged on the basis of your beautiful thoughts alone the words as they flow from your fingers to the screen are a direct transfer from your minds to ours from this perspective the more you can let that shine through unfiltered the better dont lecture us about heading one and heading two and about how to create nicely formatted lists im uninterested in hearing about how we should place images every five paragraphs or so and how our paragraphs should have logical breaks every few lines to make them easy to read rememberthatwecreditthegreekswithinventingmuchofmodernphilosophicalthoughtanddemocracyuntilthethirdcenturybctheydidntuseanypunctuationatallandwroteinscrollswithnobreakswhatsoeversinceallgoodthingsflowfromthosetimesisayifitsgoodenoughforthegreeksitsgoodenoughforme