solitude sunday

we spend time with a book on solitude sunday. i am spending time with shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks by keith houston. the punctuation mark read about today was the @ symbol; denoting the word at. it began life as a pricing tool "at the rate of"; as in "3 apples @ 50 cents each". it became very famous when the internet became the world wild web and the @ symbol was used in web addresses as in "thewhimseyproject@gmail.com".