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Eats shoots and leaves author
Eats shoots and leaves author













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My favourite story is one about the American chap playing Duncan in Macbeth, listening with appropriate pity and concern while a wounded soldier gives his account of a battle and then cheerfully calling out: 'Go get him, surgeons!' (it should of course be: 'Go, get him surgeons!'). Large, black-and-white, bear-like mammal native to China. Look me up.' The barman flicks through the book and, under the relevant entry, reads: 'PANDA. When the publican asks him what on earth he is doing, he throws a book on to the bar and growls: 'This is a badly punctuated wildlife manual. She has called it Eats, Shoots and Leaves, a title which comes from a joke in which a panda goes into a bar, asks for a ham sandwich, eats it and then takes out a revolver and fires it into the air. Well, Lynne Truss, who is a little worried about the dash - I know how you feel, Lynne - has written a 'zero- tolerance approach to punctuation' that aims to explain why it really does matter.















Eats shoots and leaves author