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Note Important Capital Letters. Mages Use Lots Of Capital Letters

"a thing isn't that bad. a Thing is."
Al McMasters, Billy vs. SNAKEMAN

"sometimes the Goddess Energies like to Manifest themselves by Pounding On The Shift key."

I do not think it is fanciful to suggest that the unnecessary capital letters with which this passage is loaded are intended to have a hypnotic effect on the reader. Burnham is trying to build up a picture of terrifying, irresistible power, and to turn a normal political manoeuvre like infiltration to Infiltration adds to the general portentousness.
George Orwell, "James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution"

What befalls us is part of the plan.
But no—I repent me of some lowercase letters—
I mean to say, Part of the Plan.
Alan Jacobs, "On the Recent Publication of Khalil Gibran's Collected Works"

The functionary opened a pair of double doors, bearing stained glass images of some kind of steam engine that Vex would no doubt have recognised had he been here, and cleared his throat.
“The Emissaries of the Inquisition, my lord.” Horst had never heard anyone enunciate capital letters before. Unsure whether to be amused or impressed, he walked forward, almost colliding with the factotum as the garishly dressed man halted at the threshold and bowed across it. “The Honourable Abelard Poklinten-Grebe, Lord of the Miredank, scion of the Grimcrag dynasty, Secretary of the Minutes to the governing council of the Conclave of the Enlightened’s Lodge of the Golden Wing.”
Apparently exhausted by the effort of such a concentrated spray of capitalisation without any discernible pause for inhalation, the minion backed away, leaving the doorway clear.

At the end of the street, however, where Mr Toms had once had his basket shop stood a glittering new supermarket - anathema to the elderly ladies of St Mary Mead.

'Packets of things one's never even heard of,' exclaimed Miss Hartnell. 'All these great packets of breakfast cereal instead of cooking a child a proper breakfast of bacon and eggs. And you're expected to take a basket yourself and go round looking for things - it takes a quarter of an hour sometimes to find all one wants - and usually made up in inconvenient sizes, too much or too little. And then a long queue waiting to pay as you go out. Most tiring. Of course it's all very well for the people from the Development -'
At this point she stopped.

Because, as was now usual, the sentence came to an end there. The Development, Period, as they would say in modern terms. It had an entity of its own, and a capital letter.

"Commonly employed in the Shattering." I don't know what that is, but it's capitalised, so it must be important.
Dan Floyd, PlayFrame, reading item descriptions in Elden Ring

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