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I think of an ellipsis as a moment in which emotion and feeling overwhelms narrative thought. That is how it is being used here, a pause for the narrator induced by internal sensation (desire) and ...
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2019-12-19T22:13:42Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T11:13:59Z (almost 5 years ago)
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I think of an ellipsis as a moment in which emotion and feeling overwhelms narrative thought. That is how it is being used here, a pause for the narrator induced by internal sensation (desire) and imagination she cannot put into words. Those can be more than desire, of course, it can be confusion, or pain, or grief, or horror, or love, or passion, or some other struggle between our emotional and sensory system asserting dominance over our rational system that can put things into words. > "No, don't ... don't ... don't die baby please don't die!" On the other hand, I regard dashes -- (or an em dash) as an interruption or pause in a thought due to some other thought intruding. So it isn't being overwhelmed by _emotion_ but being internally interrupted by a different rational insight. Or at times, stopping a sentence due to an outside interruption. > "That just isn't -- Oh, wait, I get it. I get it!"
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2019-03-08T11:25:10Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 4