Delightful! I'd say this manicule is a proto-emoji of sorts. > Thomas Pynchon parodies this punctuation mark in his novel Gravity's Rainbow by depicting a midd

Delightful! I'd say this manicule is a proto-emoji of sorts. > Thomas Pynchon parodies this punctuation mark in his novel Gravity's Rainbow by depicting a middle finger, rather than an index finger, pointing at a line of text.