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Unusual writing can have a positive or negative effect, says Patrick Forsyth
With a lifelong interest in astronomy, cosmology and the like I recently read White Holes by Carlo Rovelli, who is a must-read guru on such matters. I very much recommend this, but was puzzled to see the text contain sudden, unexplained paragraphs with either no capital letters or punctuation or both. Querying this with the publishers, I received a statement from the author explaining that it was to differentiate passages that were a more personal reflection than ‘matter-of-fact science writing’.