That title doesnt really make sense; at this point I care very little that it doesnt.I really like that I used a semicolon there. I'm not sure if I've ever used one before.
Also unsure if it's even used properly. As you can see, I'm feeling a bit irreverant right now.
Norman Mailer died. I'm a reader and I prefer American writers and reading from an American male perspective, but I'm not really a huge Mailer fan. I always found his lust for life interesting, he married six times and stabbed his second wife nearly to death. You gotta have some passion to stab your wife. She wouldnt press charges against him so he never did any time for the crime, which makes me wonder if that would even matter anymore? If the cops roll up to your brownstone in Brooklyn to learn you stabbed your wife..... does it matter if she doesnt want to press charges against you?
Not that I plan on stabbing my wife, or living in a brownstone in Brooklyn. I plan on not living anywhere. Geronimo was quoted as saying "I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures. " Am I talking about marriage? or jail?
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You are right to insinuate that they are similar. Some people weren't born to be confined - or so I hear.
But some look at the entire big picture as confinement... in a sense. Perhaps some people find in marriage someone who sets them free... or at least provides company for the time here.
Um - I think that your use of the semi colon was indeed correct. But what do I know?
If life and/or marriage feel like jail or confinement, you have only yourself to blame. Life really is what you make of it. It is a combination of your attitude and your choices. Even some inmates in jail can choose to change their attitude and work to make their life better and attain the freedom they desire.
And yes, it does appear that you correctly used the semicolon. However, you forgot the apostrophe in "doesn't" both times in that sentence...
A semicolon ( ; ) is a punctuation mark. The Italian printer Aldus Manutius the Elder established the practice of using the mark to separate words opposed in meaning and to mark off interdependent statements. The earliest general use of the semicolon in English was in 1591. Ben Jonson was the first notable writer from England to use them systematically.
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