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Block Quote Exercise
Using the following passage, taken from page 49 of George P. Landow's book Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1997) or another source as directed by your professor, write a paragraph that includes a block quotation. Include a properly formatted list of works cited, as if you were including this source in a list at the end of your paper.
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Although in some distant, or not-so-distant, future all individual texts will electronically link themselves to one another, thus creating metatexts and metametatexts of a kind only partly imaginable at present, less far-reaching forms of hypertextuality have already appeared. Translations into hypertextual form already exist of poetry, fiction, and other materials originally conceived for book technology. The simplest, most limited form of such translation preserves the linear text with its order and fixity and then appends various kinds of other texts to it, including critical commentary, textual variants, and chronologically anterior and later texts . . . . Hypertext corpora that employ a single text, originally created for print dissemination, as an unbroken axis off which to hang annotation and commentary appear in the by-now common educational and scholarly presentations of canonical literary texts. . . .
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