Hand with three fingers raised showing a small red star with black outline on one finger, the word fob in black script on the next, and a black semicolon on the third, in a fine line style on the

Star, word and semicolon on fingers

Fine line · Hand · Mixed · Photo

The photograph shows a hand with three fingers raised. A small star with a red fill and dark outline sits on the first finger, the lowercase word fob is written in black script across the middle finger, and a solid black semicolon sits on the third finger. The linework is clean and thin with no shading, and the ink is black apart from the red star, against a dark background with a blurred denim top.

Fine line Lettering Hand Star Word Script Semicolon Finger

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Nobody in Halesworth had ever seen a semicolon used properly until Mrs Pardoe came into the print shop with her husband's last letter and asked me to explain it. I told her it was a stop that said the sentence wasn't finished, only resting, and she looked at me the way you look at a man selling you a cracked kettle.

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The letter had been typed in a boarding house in Hull in 1938 on a machine with a sticky e. Walter had written about the lamp in the window and the price of coal, then put a semicolon at the end and nothing after it. Beside his signature he had drawn a small star and coloured it in with the stub of a red pencil, and above that he had underlined the word fob twice. She wanted to know what he had meant to say. I had no more idea than she did.

So we went across the road to Ivor, the locksmith, who kept a drawer of keys nobody had come back for. He tipped the drawer onto the counter and sorted through brass and iron until he found a key on a ring with a star-shaped fob, its red enamel chipped at one point. The key, he said, had been left with him by a lodger in the thirties who never returned to collect it. Mrs Pardoe turned the fob over in her palm for a long time.

She took the key home and never told me whether it fitted the door of that boarding house, or any door at all. She did put the letter back in her handbag exactly as Walter had left it. That, she said, was the only sensible way to end a sentence you weren't ready to finish, and I have thought about it every time I have had to put one of those little stops at the end of my own.