What does a comma do.

I have refused them so often and left the out so much and did without them so continually that I have come finally to be
indifferent to them. I do not now care whether you put them in or not but for a long time Ifelt very definitely about them
and would have nothing to do with them.

As I say commas are servile and they have no life of their own, and their use is not a use, it is a way of replacing one’s own
rest and I do decidedly like to like my own interest my own interest in what I am doing.

Complications make eventually for simplicity and therefore I have always liked dependent adverbial clauses. I have like
dependent adverbial clauses because of their variety of dependence and independence. You can see how loving the
intensity of complication of these things that commas would be degrading. Why if you want the pleasure of concentrating
on the final simplicity of excessive complication would you want any artificial aid to bring about that simplicity. Do you see
now why I feel about that simplicity. Do you see now why I feel about the comma as I did and as I do. Think about anything
you really like to do and you will see what I mean.

When it gets really difficult you want to disentangle rather than to cut the knot, at least of anybody feels who is working
with any thread, so anybody feels who is working with any tool so anybody feels who is writing any sentence or reading it
after it has been written. And what does a comma do, a comma does nothing but make easy a thing that if you like it enough
is easy enough without the comma. A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself
knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that lets you stop and take a breath but if you want
to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath. It is not like stopping altogether has something
to do with going on, but taking a breath well you are always taking a breath and why emphasize one breath rather than
another breath. Anyway that is the way I felt about it and I felt that about it very very strongly. And so I almost never used a
comma. The longer, the more complicated the sentence the greater the number of the same kinds of words I had following
one after another, the more the very more I had of them the more I felt the passionate need of their taking care of themselves
by themselves and not helping them, and thereby enfeebling them by putting in a comma.

So that is the way I felt about punctuation in prose, in poetry it is a little different but more so and later I will go into that.
ut that is the way I felt about punctuation in prose.