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   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>> I think you have an extra quote there!   
   AK> I retyped it manually.   
      
   I do the same, and -- as you will have noticed -- with much   
   more retypos!  I noticed the extra quote because they are   
   like keywords or literal marks in a programming language in   
   defining the structure of the text.   
      
   To boot -- the punctuation of direct speech being hard to   
   me, I prefer the older artless method employed, for   
   instance, in "The Water of the Wondrous Isles":   
      
      At last she spake, and her voice was not so harsh as   
      might have been looked for from her face: Dame, she said,   
      thou seemest to be less busy than most folk here; might I   
      crave of thee to tell an alien who has but some hour to   
      dwell in this good town where she may find her a chamber   
      wherein to rest and eat a morsel, and be untroubled of   
      ribalds and ill company?  Said the poor-wife: Short shall   
      be my tale; I am over poor to know of hostelries and ale-   
      houses that I may tell thee aught thereof.  Said the   
      other: Maybe some neighbour of thine would take me in for   
      thy sake?  Said the mother: What neighbours have I since   
      my man died; and I dying of hunger, and in this town of   
      thrift and abundance?   
      
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