The double period provides rhythm to writing. With a typewriter...I have one...that rhythm is important. It separates the rhythm dictated by line length from

The double period provides rhythm to writing. With a typewriter...I have one...that rhythm is important. It separates the rhythm dictated by line length from the rhythm of ideas. I can, and often do, replace the rhythm of the double space with the rhythm of a double return. Or, as here, a double enter. But yes, I am over forty. Still every generation thinks they invented sex.