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Originally Posted by Catlady
I don't know if you're deliberately trying to bait me for the fun of it, or if you truly believe that minimum quality standards don't matter. If the latter, we have nothing to discuss. If the former, the fun is over, and we have nothing to discuss.
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Your minimum standards are much higher than mine, it appears. My minimum standards require that words are spelled correctly. And in this instance they are. Please don't generalize that ALL English speaking or writing individuals are always correctly using all rules. Imperfection is part of what makes us human and not robots. Artistic freedom allows for introducing mistakes. One good example is dialogue that runs together as a single line as in:
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"Hi." "Hi." Kiss. Kiss.
This is fantastic and says so much with simply four words. Has to be together to show the dynamic. There is no thinking allowed, no gap. Correctly separated into paragraphs would take away from the whole message and image that appears:
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"Hi."
"Hi."
Kiss.
Kiss.
That one is slower. I would wonder why they had such a simple dialogue. The first one as in the book made me think about the drag of a simple ritual. With repetition it became so ingrained and automatic as to be meaningless. I would like to think it was meant to be a single line to speed it up. If it was an honest OCR mistake it still served to enhance the experience. If a section is riddled with jumping around and unfinished thought processes, then it may be done on purpose. This way the reader is forced to feel just as confused as the person thinking or talking.
The book is about brainwashing and mind control, the OCR software simply got infected by it. If you read the whole book with all the bad added and go with the flow -- who knows what will happen.