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A letter to his editor at Grove Press: "I cant possibly go on as a responsible prose artist and also as a believer in the impulses of my own heart and in the beauty of pure spontaneous language if I let editors take my sentences, which are my phrases that I separate by dashes when I 'draw a breath,' each of which pours out to the tune of the whole story its own rhythmic yawp of expostulation, & riddle them with commas, cut them in half, in threes, in fours, ruining the swing ...
Cotgrave has:— Deâ , an interjection, as Dâ, ouy de^ [the circumflex over the a is not mine, but Cotgrave's], yes, truly, verily, without doubt also, a tearme of expostulation [note this]; as deâ, qui vous mouvoit ?
It is a note of expostulation, as Cotgrave truly says; and it indicates despair rather than hope.