Although such an assertion may seem minimal it can provide a telling emphasis Sometimes it is repeated to create an insistence Among the poorest people on the continent they were freely loading me up with provisions I offered my watch in trade He refused not altogether convincingly sa ID: 641211
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from Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, pg.11
Although such an assertion may seem minimal, it can provide a telling emphasis. Sometimes it is repeated to create an insistence.
Among the poorest people on the continent, they were freely loading me up with provisions. I offered my watch in trade. He refused (not altogether convincingly), saying “A gift is a gift.”…His seven children followed along behind me…When I got to the edge of the forest, I took off my watch and handed it to the oldest boy. “This is for your father. Tell him I said
a gift is a gift
.”
-Mark
Plotkin
, Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice, 1998