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From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
I love that :). I have noticed that now, when I am writing perfectly
ordinary letters to people, I struggle to supress these little fellers but I
now sometimes feel I cannot express myself adequately without them.
Over at the J.D. Salinger mailing list (of which I was once a member) we too
speculated that he was the originator of emoticons, in his book `Seymour: An
Introduction':
`May I present you, the reader, with this late-blooming bouquet of
parentheses: ((((((()))))))'
Here comes another one - ;)
Camille Scaysbrook
> From: Kiran Krishna <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
>
> Was Nabokov the first to come up with the oft-used symbol for the smile?
>
> Interview with Alden Whitman, The New York Times, April, 1969
>
> Q: How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate
> past?
>
> A: I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a
> smile - some sort of a concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would
> now like to trace in reply to your question.
>
> Amusing.
> yours
> Kiran
>
I love that :). I have noticed that now, when I am writing perfectly
ordinary letters to people, I struggle to supress these little fellers but I
now sometimes feel I cannot express myself adequately without them.
Over at the J.D. Salinger mailing list (of which I was once a member) we too
speculated that he was the originator of emoticons, in his book `Seymour: An
Introduction':
`May I present you, the reader, with this late-blooming bouquet of
parentheses: ((((((()))))))'
Here comes another one - ;)
Camille Scaysbrook
> From: Kiran Krishna <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
>
> Was Nabokov the first to come up with the oft-used symbol for the smile?
>
> Interview with Alden Whitman, The New York Times, April, 1969
>
> Q: How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate
> past?
>
> A: I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a
> smile - some sort of a concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would
> now like to trace in reply to your question.
>
> Amusing.
> yours
> Kiran
>