`Blood Meridian` is a great novel in spite of, not because of his lack of punctuation.

Do you not see the irony in his own use of four commas and a colon while telling us to minimize our punctuation use in this article?

> While you are writing, ask yourself: is it possible to preserve my original message without that punctuation mark, that word, that sentence, that paragraph or that section? Remove extra words or commas whenever you can.

Perhaps he merely considered the "Oxford comma" unnecessary!