why wy?

A couple of good bits on arts and letters daily:

two evocative quotes for all wordsmiths out there:
“No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.” Raymond Carver

“The semicolon is ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly, I pinch them out of my prose.” Donald Barthelme.

And on the famous sartre beauvior relationship, a new book describes them as a modern day dangerous liaisons couple. They had an open relationship, with a revolving table of pretty young femmes, which is sorta okay in a Woody Allen universe. But it turns out simone was introducing these young girls/students to sartre, he would try to seduce them, leave them, and during the affair, they wrote letters to each other bitching about the young protege and planning their next move. ooohhh very evil.