my parentheses: in need of a Venice Beach semi-colonic ;)
5-7-5 βSoon I was incorporating :( and ;) and ;( too and after that the live emoticons, and now, without any intention of ever reducing the enormity of my human emotions to these shallow shortcuts, to this typographical juvenilia, I went around all day reducing them and reducing them, endowing emotions with, and requiring them to carry the subtle quivering burdens of my inner life.β - Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour