It is a meaningful phrase, and maybe wikipedia doesn't have an entry for it, but it's a fairly common informal emphasis mechanism, not something the author made

It is a meaningful phrase, and maybe wikipedia doesn't have an entry for it, but it's a fairly common informal emphasis mechanism, not something the author made up. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/248861/how-common-it-is-to-emphasize-a-sentence-by-adding-periods-between-words https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/248861/how-commo... https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/41078/name-and-origin-of-writing-with-period-after-each-word https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/41078/name-and-o...