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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (25 May 1894 – 1 July 1961) was a famous French barber noted best for the invention of haircut writing. He chronicled his life as an Army barber during WWI on the scalps of 1.1 million French youths.
Celine is also world renowed for the invention of the dot dot dot sentence completion. Before Celine '...' or dot dot dot (as it is referred to in morse code) was simply used to end a trailing sentence when an author wanted to create dramatic suspense. Celine moved dot dot dot into a new role by ending a sentence that way... ...and simply beginning another...sentence...know...what...I...mean...?
Life[edit | edit source]
Early life[edit | edit source]
Louis had two parents a mother and a father- both of which lived in the same house with him. According to Dickens, Flaubert, and Balzac this was ‘highly unusual’ for a lad of the early 20th century. Celine was the only child of a two child household that consisted of himself and his father who did manage to fit many of the over drinking, over womanizing, over working stereotypes of the aforementioned authors.
Historians have remarked that Celine had many jobs before becoming a haircut writer, and often left them after a short period of time. This is a nice way of pointing out that he was kind of a loser- and a drifter; but you can’t say that about famous people once they become famous. Then it becomes ‘finding himself’.
World War One[edit | edit source]
After losing a bet during a game of tiddlywinks with his best friend Charles De Gaulle; Celine was forced to join the French Army currently engaged in the Battle of Rochambeau.