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dialogue
Two voices taking turns, where the second voice holds the objection. The reader's resistance gets spoken at the moment it arrives, and the answer stays attached to the question that provoked it, which is hard to arrange in prose. The cost is length. Every point now takes a turn and a reply, and a weak objection wastes both.
Two voices taking turns, where the second voice holds the objection. The reader's resistance gets spoken at the moment it arrives, and the answer stays attached to the question that provoked it, which is hard to arrange in prose. The cost is length. Every point now takes a turn and a reply, and a weak objection wastes both.
Example
Best when the reader will object early, and the objection is more interesting than the claim it interrupts.
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