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1 " I'm sorry," Billy says, " but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things. "
2 " Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her brother's death to keep conversations comfortable. At some point the subconscious logic of this had spread to the rest of her life so that she rarely talked about things she had been deeply affected by. It wasn't hard to do. "
― Mira Jacob , The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
3 " Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus. "
