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@packetcat@tenforward.social Cormac McCarthy springs to mind. I've seen explanation of why he never used quotation marks, and I don't buy that it's a good enough reason to impose that burden on his readers. "You really have to be aware that there are no quotation marks, and write in such a way as to guide people as to who’s speaking.” Sure -- great, go do that as an authorial discipline/improvement thing, then go back and put in quotes to not force the readers to share the hard-work part. (James Ellroy comes to mind as another who does weird shit with his prose styling up with which I did not want to put.)