Both Uses of
verbatim
in
Franny and Zooey
- And that professional writers of a type love to reproduce verbatim: 3/18/51 DEAR ZOOEY, I've just finished decoding a long letter that came from Mother this morning, all about you and General Eisenhower's smile and small boys in the Daily News who fall down elevator shafts and when am I going to have my phone in New York taken out and get one installed up here in the country, where I really need it.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Most of the time, they were direct carry-overs from the five undoubtedly formative years he had spent as a regular panelist on "It's a Wise Child," when, rather than seem to flaunt his somewhat preposterous ability to quote, instantaneously and, usually, verbatim, almost anything he had ever read, or even listened to, with genuine interest, he cultivated a habit of furrowing his brow and appearing to stall for time, the way the other children on the program did.†
Chpt 2.3
Definition:
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(verbatim) in precisely the same words