I think that He Whomst I Continue Never to Name lies derangedly: He lies constantly for no good reason, even when the truth is innocuous. And I suspect he sincerely believes a lot of his lies.
In quoting someone else's writing, there's no reason to introduce ellipses at either the beginning or the end of the quoted matter.
In the middle, to signify deletion, absolutely. But not at the start or the finish.
Also, to make the quoted matter contextual with your writing, you may change an opening capital letter to a lowercase one, or vicey versey, without resorting to brackets,* but you knew that.
*Exceptions are allowed for lawyers or scholars aiming for extreme punctiliousness, but otherwise nah.
Imagine watching a film so riveting you barely move for two hours, not even to tweet about it.
Also, people should stop ragging on Valerie Hobson just because she's not Jean Simmons. She's really good.
And I just realized, on the umpteenth viewing, that that's her playing Estella's mother too.
It's delightful for someone in a Dickens plot to come out and explicitly say that something crucial to the entire works yet utterly absurd is a coincidence.
I mean, itβs one farmer, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
See also "writers room," which I feel comes up a lot.
I suppose we preserve "ladies' room" and "men's room" mostly out of a sense of tradition (and because "men room" is untenable), but presumably both are going the way of "his or her."
Did I miss the part where I said "Hey, let's put this up for a vote"?