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by Geee 4498 days ago
Hah, on the page 85 that 'P' character got a bit out of hand. :)

It's weird that every paragraph starts with either the 'K' or 'P' characters. Not sure if that could be possible with real languages.

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> It's weird that every paragraph starts with either the 'K' or 'P' characters.

It's not like many languages out there end (or wrap, even!) their sentences with a couple of unique symbols.

It could be a poem. Psalm 119 has 22 stanzas, with the first letter of each sentence of the stanza being with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In the first stanza, each verse starts with aleph, in the second beth, and so on.
This observation lends weight to my naked women theory. That extravagent P has arms, legs, a head and ... :P
It's not that unlikely in highly formalized writing. You see similar phenomenon in very formal English registers, where you might see a whole run of sentences begin with "Whereas...." One after another.
It could be quite feasible if the symbol has a similar meaning to an article in English.