Blockquote
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The block quotation is a typographic device used to designate an extended quoted passage. A block quote appears as its own verical unit and is distinguished from surrounding text through indentation, italics, type size, or some combination of these. The <blockquote> tag dates to the first draft of HTML.
Blockquote.org is the weblog of Justin Skolnick.
In time all quotations will be properly documented, because it matters.
Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian