He can even explain why he really, really, hates opera as an art-form while resorting to no exclamation marks whatsoever. He behaves in a perfectly rational way for an unmasked criminal, taking Agnes hostage and using her as a bargaining tool to secure his freedom along with the stolen money. At first rational, explaining his actions and motivations and looking for a way to escape, there are no exclamation marks at all. There is a practical demonstration of this in the final act of the Opera in Maskerade, when Salzella is unmasked as the malevolent opera ghost. The basic idea is that a person's sanity is inversely proportional to the number of exclamation marks they use! There are a few mentions of multiple exclamation marks in the books and by Terry Pratchett himself, so it appears this is something he feels fairly strongly about.
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