Originally I wanted to call our project ‘No One’ but another band had already claimed that name. I was wondering if I could find a phonetic version, as in 'nowan', when I saw that if I added a ‘d’ it would become NOWAND.

 

In their simple complexity these three punctuation marks have always fascinated me as they perfectly illustrate what NOWAND means to me. The name has a curious sense of direction – first it marks the moment (now!), then it points towards something in the future (and?). Inevitably it also begs the question: 'and now?' – it seems to be both a question and an answer, open-ended and mysterious.

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The three dots on their own are known as an ellipsis. They are used to indicate an omission of words, a pause, a trailing off of thought, to create a sense of suspense, or to allude to something left unsaid.

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If you were to simultaneously move the exclamation and question marks into the centre, on to the period, it becomes an interrobang - a truly curious thing.

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MARK