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bonsai_spooltoday at 12:06 AM1 replyview on HN

In a 16th century French literature course, I read Montaigne in the original—I realized then how much I rely on paragraphs to read prose...

I don't quite see why the author shuns them.


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svattoday at 12:46 AM

It's a bug in the website's preview mode — if you look at the full essay, it has (if I've counted correctly) 25 paragraphs. There are also three paragraphs that start with "BC" for some reason, which seem to be bigger breaks.

There should be 7 paragraphs in the preview shown, with paragraph breaks after ‘reigns.”’, ‘on Amazon.’, ‘Well, yes.’ and so on.