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Keith Houston is the creator of the Shady Characters blog. He and his wife live in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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From ancient Greece to the Internet—via the Renaissance, Gutenberg, and Madison Avenue—Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuation.
A 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 the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic (¶) and everyday (&).
From the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs, figures as diverse as Charlemagne, Vladimir Nabokov, and George W. Bush cross paths with marks as obscure as the interrobang (?) and as divisive as the dash (—). Ancient Roman graffiti, Venetian trading shorthand, Cold War double agents, and Madison Avenue round out an ever more diverse set of episodes, characters, and artifacts.
Richly illustrated, ranging across time, typographies, and countries, Shady Characters will delight and entertain all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life.
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因给TIB写稿而邂逅的神作，竟然在年前啃完了。作者的学术研究涉猎之深与其造诣令人叹为观止。
评分一些标点符号和印刷符号的前生今世。但又不仅仅是对这些符号发展历程的描述，而是涉及多个领域：书籍的抄写和保存，校勘学的发展，早期教会，出版印刷史，等等，既有很人文的内容，也有纯技术的部分，读者可以进行多个领域的延伸阅读。感觉最有意思的是星号和dagger的那章，谈了很多脚注的发展历程，后来却又谈到了棒球明星Barry Bonds和小布什总统与星号的纠葛。最意外的是@符号，居然来自amphora。读的2013版，现已又出新版。
评分因给TIB写稿而邂逅的神作，竟然在年前啃完了。作者的学术研究涉猎之深与其造诣令人叹为观止。
评分因给TIB写稿而邂逅的神作，竟然在年前啃完了。作者的学术研究涉猎之深与其造诣令人叹为观止。
评分因给TIB写稿而邂逅的神作，竟然在年前啃完了。作者的学术研究涉猎之深与其造诣令人叹为观止。
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