Do you have a photo of you when you were first going to school?

The strangest of things occured when the number suddenly turned into the year 1953. My second year of school. ¿Have you ever experienced this? It’s as if that time is really there and not just as a memory. And together with God’s words, this creates an effect that is difficult to describe, a mixture of deep sadnees about how everything went so terribly wrong, and ecstatic joy about what seems to be the dawning of a second life.

Beloved Charles, you ask how I like them apples. I love them![big big exclamation point] I love every apple of a comment you give us!!!

And anyway, it isn’t exactly what you are talking about. What you are after is more like the difference between a colon and a semi-colon, and it really all comes down to voicing.

My wish is to see all apostrophes done away with in the English language. It is a French import that does little to help and much to confuse, and with few exceptions anyone can figure out what words mean without an apostrophe just by voicing and context. The rare exception could be rewritten to make its meaning plain.

Dont you think life would be simpler without the apostrophe as we use it now? Of course all the English professors text books would have to be revised but thats a small price to pay. I dont ordinarily drop my apostrophes because it upsets people and is misunderstood which hinders communication rather than helping. Its an idea I hope works its way into the language by way of texters thumbs.

At first glance you might want to appropriate the apostrophe key to use as your little question mark but the apostrophe also serves as the single quotation mark, at least on a keyboard, and that single quote mark can actually be useful.

I agree about the Spanish use of upside down question and exclamation marks at the beginning of a sentence, but if they werent already in use they might well serve for what you are looking for.

I often halfway solve this by just using a period for questions that arent really questions and your mind supplies the intonation. How do you like them apples.

Not the perfect solution. How do you like them apples!

The Truth You Seek
Heavenletter # 982 Published on: June 30, 2003

I have not read it yet, so I don’t know whether to be proud of it or not.

Next one.

On another subject, have you noticed the Cosmic Wow generator on the blog now? This is the first time I noticed it. I could not resist clicking it of course.

This is the Heavenletter that came up for me: Heaven #1953 The Make-Up Comes Off, Published on: March 28, 2006.

How I would love all that make-up to come off.

What Heavenletter comes up for you, Jochen?

Heaven Admin, thank you.

Ah, Lewis Carroll. What a great example! Let me try to quote something from memory:

“What do you see?” asked the king.
“I see no one”, said Alice.
“Ah, the eyes of youth”, the king sighed. “I wouldn’t even be able to see someone from this distance.”