I dreamed that I had coffee and dessert with Lewis Thomas, who said the most delightful things, such as: "I have grown fond of semicolons in recent years. ... It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period.  The period tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along.  But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer."

Then I dreamed of sitting in a court of law, where "I witnessed a jury trial over the placement of a semicolon," just as in THIS TIME I DANCE! by Tama J. Kieves.