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“Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?”
- Slaughterhouse-Five
In the study of literature, redaction can refer to a form of editing, in which multiple source texts are combined together (redacted), and are subjected to minor alteration to make it appear that they are a single work. Often this is simply a method of collecting together a series of writings on a vaguely similar theme, and creating a definitive and coherent work.