Jennifer Parker scrolled back up to the top of the page and perused her composition. It was a fair assessment of an above-average entertainment, she thought. Not too generous, but not unkind by any means. She had picked up on all the obvious points of interest - the continuous use of iambic hexameter, the elaborately constructed overhead set, the controversial casting of Maxwell Dandy as the eponymous vivisectionist...
The content of her evaluation was not in question, but her chosen style would inevitably be a matter of concern. She hoped her reviewer would look kindly on her overuse of the semi-colon and the Oxford comma, and instead enjoy the smoothly continuous flow of her prose. Of course, his or her concerns would be affected by the spectre of his or her own reviewer, although surely that individual could not be too harsh for fear of being critiqued in turn.
Jennifer read through the piece one final time, then pressed "Send". The cogs of the critical machine creaked ever onwards.
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