That is actually new to me, but maybe because I'm into sci-fi from around 1950-1970, where direct conversations between characters are just "quoted sentences" i

That is actually new to me, but maybe because I'm into sci-fi from around 1950-1970, where direct conversations between characters are just "quoted sentences" inside narrator sentences. I'm a bit of Philip K. Dick fan and have "A Scanner Darkly" in two languages. Polish version is 150 pages more, an inch wider and an inch taller in size. Not that PKD elaborate language would justify more flourish translation, he was very "straight to the point". It's such a waste.