SALINGER, J.D.

p. 98 :

[...] I privately say to you, old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))). I suppose, most unflorally, I trluy mean them to be taken, first off, as bowlegged - buckle-legged - omens of my state of mind and body at this writing.

(Seymour - An Introduction, 1981 [1963])