Name: Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks -- Keith Houston, Paperback
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks -- Keith Houston, Paperback

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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks -- Keith Houston, PaperbackA charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (+) which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart

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