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.
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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