The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace.

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Wikipedia contributors. (2024, January 30). Pilcrow. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 8, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pilcrow&oldid=1200941643

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pilcrow The pilcrow character marks the start of a paragraph.

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Richard Nixon (allthetropes.org) The thirty-seventh President of the United States, and probably the most hated former president in U.S. history before politics polarized in the early 2000s (only Herbert Hoover is competition), Richard Milhous Nixon remains the standard-bearer as being the embodiment of the corrupt president. If President Corrupt shows up in fiction, there will probably be allusions to this guy.

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Pilcrow (Wikipedia) The pilcrow, ¶, is a typographical character that marks the start of a paragraph. It is also called the paragraph mark (or sign or symbol), paraph, or blind P.

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