solitude sunday

we spend time with a book on solitude sunday. my visit continues with keith houston's, shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols &other typographical marks. today i read about the quotation mark or as the author pointed out, marks, as the quotation mark(s) always comes in pairs. the quotation mark began life as a diple  ">" as far back into history at the library of alexandria. the purpose of the diple was to mark an important point in text.