There are two different way of thinking about colons and semicolons
you can think of them as commas and as such they are purely servile
or you can think of them as periods and then using them can make
you feel adventurous I can see that one might feel about them as
periods but I myself never have, I began unfortunately to feel them
as a comma and commas are servile they have no life of their own
they are dependent upon use and convenience and they are put there
just for practical purposes. Semi-colons and colons had for me
from the first completely this character the character that a
comma has and not the character that a period has and therefore
and definitely I have never used them. But now dimly and definitely
I do see that they might well possibly they might have in them
something of the character of the period and so it might have been
an adventure to use them. I really do not think so. I think however
lively they are or disguised they are they are definitely more
comma than period and so really I cannot regret not having used them.
They are more powerful more imposing more pretentious than a comma
but they are a comma all the same. They really have within them deeply
within them fundamentally within them the comma nature. And now
what does a comma do and what has it to do and why do I feel as I do about them.