RARA-AVIS: Re: Noir skiffy punctuation: Robison

From: foxbrick ( foxbrick@yahoo.com)
Date: 26 Oct 2007


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison <miker_zspider@...> wrote:
 Did you actually allude to noir
> in sci-fi without mentioning Do Androids Dream of
> Electric Sheep?
>
> And should that last sentence end with two question
> marks since the first would be part of the book title
> and the second would be the end of the sentence?

One ? shoud suffice, I'd suggest, though if you had a means of italicizing here you could put another standard mark afterward...or put it thus:

...mentioning _DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?_? (with or w/o the caps.).

TM



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