The Snuff Box of Mr. ——

If you read almost any pre-modern novel, you’ll often find character names, places, and profanity replaced by ellipses, em dashes, and underscores (e.g., “Mr. H…,” “the K—— bridge,” “d___n it!”). Below, I have gathered such redacted moments from thirty-seven novels (such as Mansfield Park, Les Misérables, and Moby-Dick) and collaged them into a single story, a literary supercut containing no words of my own.