I want to share a striking paragraph but Copyright and the author being a grouch stop me (UPDATED) [View all]
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Three or so years ago somebody pressed me to read a travel book, which I did just by the duress. And the author is cranky and grouchy, sour about just about everybody and every place he went. Fine, and there were lots of vivid insights but I remembered one passage that was existentially dire and recently wanted to look it up. So there are no excerpts or e-books on the net for this dude and I went to the public library. The passage wasn't in the chapter I thought it was in, but it wasn't hard skimming about three other chapters, and there it was, not a passage but a short paragraph. But when I noted the full info for the publisher and year and all, the Copyright statement was standard but especially forbidding about not reproducing any portion without permission because I have a feeling that this grouchy, cranky author would be litigious to the fullest.
The contextual whole totals 500+ words and the paragraph is only 80. Would a summary of the context be permissible then with a paraphrase of the paragraph, which will lose the quality? And with this set-up, if you saw the quotation you would probably experience a let-down!1
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