Mark Twain would hate emailing with me!!!

Mark Twain showed up in The New York Times on Friday in an article about the overuse of exclamation points in emails. I personally love the exclamation point. The hardest part of writing this blog is not using one after everything I find interesting and exciting! 

In an essay published in 1895 called “How to Tell a Story,” Mark Twain chastised writers who use “whooping exclamation-points” that reveal them laughing at their own humor, “all of which is very depressing, and makes one want to renounce joking and lead a better life.”

Richard Artschwager, Exclamation Point. I saw this in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford!