The novel by Sir Walter Scott has been hacked from 179,000 words to 80,000. Scott's writing style has been retained – verily, lest there be convulsions mongst professors of Scottish literature – but tens of thousands of commas and semi-colons have been laid waste; the punctuation has been brought up to date; this is me using semi-colons to show what old Walter wrote like but lacking the richness of language.
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knights getting shorter
Ivanhoe has suffered cutbacks.
The novel by Sir Walter Scott has been hacked from 179,000 words to 80,000. Scott's writing style has been retained – verily, lest there be convulsions mongst professors of Scottish literature – but tens of thousands of commas and semi-colons have been laid waste; the punctuation has been brought up to date; this is me using semi-colons to show what old Walter wrote like but lacking the richness of language.
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