Grammatically Correct: The writer's essential guide to punctuation ...

ORIGINAL QuoTATION:
Dear Theo,
PUNCTUATION
Toulouse-Lautrec is the saddest man in the world. He longs more
than anything to be a great dentist, and he has real talent, but he's
too short to reach his patients' mouths and too proud to stand on
anything. Arms over his head, he gropes around their lips blindly, and
yesterday, instead of putting caps on Mrs. Fitelson's teeth, he capped
her chin. Meanwhile, my old friend Monet refuses to work on anything
but very, very large mouths and Seurat, who is quite moody, has
developed a method of cleaning one tooth at a time until he builds
up what he calls "a full, fresh mouth." It has an architectural solidity
to it, but is it dental work?
REVISED QuoTATION:
Vincent
-WooDY ALLEN, If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists
Toulouse-Lautrec. ... longs more than anything to be a great dentist,
and he has real talent, but he's too short to reach his patients' mouths
and too proud to stand on anything .... he gropes around their lips
blindly .... Meanwhile, ... Monet refuses to work on anything but
very, very large mouths and Seurat ... has developed a method of
cleaning one tooth at a time until he builds up what he calls "a full,
fresh mouth." It has an architectural solidity to it, but is it dental work?
Ellipses can also be used to indicate the omissions in a one-sided
dialogue, typically a phone conversation or a conversation where
the writer wants to report what only one character is saying.
I was going to ask to see the rubies when the phone rang, and
Gatsby took up the receiver.
"Yes .... Well, I can't talk now .... I can't talk now, old sport ....
I said a small town .... He must know what a small town is .... Well,
he's of no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town .... "
He rang off.
-F. ScoTT FITZGERALD, The Great Gatsby
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