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Ellipsis - dashes - punctuation - oh my! An essay on the use of dashes in Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman The dash is a handy device, informal and essentially playful, telling you that you're about to take off on a different tack but still in some way connected with the present course - only you have to remember that the dash is there, and either put a second dash at the end of the notion to let the reader know that he's back on course, or else end the sentence, as here, with a period. __ Lewis Thomas How does a writer - a good writer - convey epiphanies exactly so that it's grammatically appropriate for - eureka! - a dash is used - placed just so - to convey, establish - a mood, feeling, tone - a character feels - whilst saying a line, monologue - even an exclamation...

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