direct and indirect sentences

Direct Sentences

1. “Everything remembered and thought," he rightly points out, "everything conscious, becomes the pedestal, the frame, the base, the lock of his property. The period, the region, the craftsmanship, the former ownership for a true collector the whole background of an item adds up to a magic encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object."

2. In a memorable passage in his magnificent essay, "Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting", Walter Benjamin writes. "There is in the life of the collector a dialectical tension between the poles of disorder and order. Naturally, his existence is tied to many other things as well, to a very mysterious relationship to ownership also a relationship to objects which does not emphasise their functional utilitarian value - that is, their usefulness - but studies and loves them as the scene, the stage, of their fate."

Indirect senteces

1. “Everything was remembered and thought," he rightly pointed out, "everything was conscious, becomed the pedestal, the frame, the base, the lock of his property. The period, the region, the craftsmanship, the former ownership for a true collector the whole background of an item adds up to a magic encyclopaedia whose quintessence has been the fate of his object."

2. In a memorable passage in his magnificent essay, "Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting", Walter Benjamin writes. "There was in the life of the collector a dialectical tension between the poles of disorder and order. Naturally, his existence had been tied to many other things as well, to a very mysterious relationship to ownership also a relationship to objects which did not emphasise their functional utilitarian value - that was, their usefulness - but studies and loves them as the scene, the stage, of their fate."