[stylist] editing question

[Anita Adkins]

You know Othello seems to do a lot of solilikwees, and sorry I spelled that 
wrong, I know. One might download it or Hamlet from bookshare as I am a 
little rusty on Shakespeare and hunt for this type of speak-aloud in order 
to find this type of thing in the text. Just a thought. Anita

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
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>I think there may be instances in which both are necessary. For instance, 
>if the character is thinking (in italics) and recalls something that was 
>said to him/her and that passage is to be included as a direct quote, would 
>you use quotes or apostrophe within the italics?
>
> Here's a real mind-nummer. Suppose a character is talking outloud 
> (obviously in standard quotes) and recalls his/her own thought which 
> itself includes a direct quote from someone else. My guess is that you'd 
> have quotes around the whole thing, italics for the whole thought and 
> apostrophes around the recalled direct quote.
> Donna
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> On 1/5/2011 2:01 PM, Judith Bron wrote:
>> Perhaps the apostrophe approach is outdated.  Perhaps that style stopped 
>> with Dickens.  At any rate, that's how I treated thoughts or one 
>> character quoting another in my book.  Judith
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>>> You know, I thought it should be ' as well but someone told me that was 
>>> wrong.
>>> Scratches her head,
>>> Atty
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