Rushdie's Symphony of Shouts: Embracing the Exclamation Overflow
- Contrary to restraint, Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" serves as a testament to exclamation point abundance.
- In a world brimming with magical realism, Rushdie employs over 2,000 exclamation points (average of six exclamation points per page!), creating a linguistic spectacle that mirrors the cacophony of our internet-driven lives.
- For our generation, this extravagant use might resonate as a celebration of expressive freedom.
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The exclamation point attracts enormous (and undue) amounts of flak for its unabashed claim to presence in the name of emotion which some unkind souls interpret as egotistical attention-seeking.
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