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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Hi,
In the older classics, I often encounter underscores where names, dates or times should have been. See an example in the screenshot.
Why is that?
I can't imagine a writer protecting the privacy of cities or people that don't even exist outside of his own book.
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I've always understood this to be a literary convention to imply that the story could be true and not fiction.