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Old 05-25-2025, 04:15 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by PointingMonkey View Post
One line I wasn't sure on, but took my best guess was this one:

“What do you mean-reality?”

Chesterton loved a hyphen as much as the next guy. But as I've never seen mean-reality hyphened, I changed it to an em dash. Which seemed more fitting:

“What do you mean—reality?”
This preview from the Penguin Classics ebook edition of The Complete Father Brown Stories, which I hope you can see, shows a dash.

https://www.google.com/books/edition...sec=frontcover
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