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would have been better, as in the famous Philosophy paper conundrum:
"Is this a question"
to which one wag responded
"If that is a question, this is the answer".
"?"
To which the answer received was
"!"
He was inquiring about the sales of his book. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
And Victor Hugo was already a famous and successful writer at the time, so I guess he could afford to publish straight to book... Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
But then, that would lead some to think that the punctuation was, in fact, content, rather than placeholder text. Utsukushikereba sore de ii
