Kurt Vonnegut Influence On Ben Dolnick

“Semicolons” Kurt Vonnegut influenced Ben Dolnick in a way that changed his way of thinking for quite a few years. Ben had idealized Kurt Vonnegut on his writing to extent of collecting all of his books and even in different languages. So when Kurt made the comment that semicolons represented absolutely nothing, Ben decided it was something he would live by and believe. As Ben’s life went on and he became more educated and started to think more on his own. He began to question the idea. William James was the blame of Ben’s grammatical fall, as Ben became a reader of James collection of writings. Ben had a strange attraction to how James used the semicolons often and how the writing was interesting to read because of them. I have never