Hi, I'm writing an English paper and I want to include an abridged quote, but I'm not sure I did it right. The original text is:
| Right at the beginning of the last chapter, O'Brien states, "But this too is true: stories can save us. I'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive. And Ted Lavender, too, and Kiowa, and Curt Lemon, and a slim young man I killed, and an old man sprawled beside a pigpen, and several others whose bodies I once lifted and dumped into a truck. They're all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world." |
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My paraphrase:
| Right at the beginning of the last chapter, O'Brien states, "But this too is true: stories can save us. I'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive. And Ted Lavender, too, and Kiowa, and Curt Lemon(...). They're all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world." |
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