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If I quote while skipping parts and the quote is longer than 4 lines, do I still need to make a block"?
I know in MLA one has to block quote if the passage is 4 or more lines, but what if it contains parts that are skipped? And if so, how would this appear? This is what I have
“I was breathing in sobs, in gasps . . . Understood, and stumbled back in horror and revulsion, my mind yanked in six different directions . . . I stumbled back, but the muck took hold of my feet-a sneaker snagged, balance lost-and suddenly I was pitching face forward into the buoyant black mass, throwing out my hands in desperation” (Boyle 577).
This was taken from Greasy Lake by Thomas Boyle in a book called Compact Literature.
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- VampLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
The "block quote" situation applies to the amount you actually quote.
If the original was more than four lines but, after omission, you ended up with fewer than four lines, it would be treated as an "in text" quotation not as a block.
