🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 55

What is needed is to select from the original such portions as are at once the most essential to the story, and the most characteristic, reproducing them in a condensed form, and taking care that the necessary additions bring out the idea, and contain nothing that is not in the spirit, of the original.

Who acts: necessary additions · What happens: need, be, reproduce, condense, take, bring out · To what, where: original such portions, essential, portions, condensed form, care, idea

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Pragmatics

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