Poke it with a stick

Musings, more often than not, require pauses. A pause from routine. A comma. Or a full-stop if the muse is particularly inviting. You can be meta too, and make the full-stop your muse, as I did.

Punctuation comes from Latin “punctus”, which literally means a point. It was so called because the Romans in their manuscripts separated words by little points (you can still do this in our standard word document by turning out formatting marks).

But of course, it doesn’t stop there. Someone who’s very particular about the fine details is punctilious. You know that they will exactly arrive at a place at the particular point in time (or they’re lame and punctual). Sometimes it’s annoying, so much so that you want to poke small holes into their bodies (or puncture), and you can easily justify it by calling it acupuncture and get paid real money for pseudoscience.