punctuation
The open-ended dash, breathless, was her pause of choice, dashes in all sizes and shapes: short, long, slant, each prying the door ajar. Nouns stand at attention, capitalized and substantive.
Description of Emily Dickinson’s writing, in White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (New York: Anchor Books, 2009), 75.