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The Rise and Fall of the Infamous SarcMark
<p>It's national punctuation day! In his new book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shady-Characters-Punctuation-Symbols-Typographical/dp/0393064425" target="_blank">Shady Characters</a></i>, Keith Houston investigates the origin and evolution of such punctuation marks as the asterisk (*), the dagger (†), the at sign (@), the pilcrow (¶), and the octothorpe (#). But it is the quest of a father and son to invent a symbol for sarcasm that will live in infamy.</p>
Keith Houston