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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Well, it's more than a convention! I would call it a rule:
"If a passage consisting of more than one paragraph from the same source is quoted and is not set off as an excerpt, quotation marks are used at the beginning of each paragraph and at the end of the last paragraph." (Chicago Manual of Style, 10.29)
(I'm not trying to revive an old thread, just coming to grips with something.)
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NJ:
Aw, c'mon, man--you know as well as I, there is an enormous block of writers nowadays that wouldn't even think of using that convention.
We have "authors" that think that an emdash means that someone trails off from speaking and that an ellipsis means that they've broken off abruptly, so knowing the soliloquy convention...pah. Not a bloody chance. YOU would do it that way, as would I...but anyone not traditionally trained? Not a freaking chance.
Hitch