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diff --git a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york.rst b/faith/breakfast_in_new_york.rst
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@@ -15,18 +15,19 @@ not capable of carrying more like seven or eight chapters, but we
 have thirty-one of them. If you write two-hundred thousand words
 long story, there is always good testing question “Do I have
 a plot as strong as `Moby Dick by Herman Melville`_, do I have
-the same amount of action?” OK, romance can have less adventure
-than Moby Dick, but this story with this incredible repetitive
-nature (where even Hermione gets so bored, she obviously forgot
-Harry has already told her he was Roman-Catholic and they would
-have a wedding ordained by his parish priest even telling her his
-name) and long descriptions of everything completely useless in
-terms of plot, just goes on and on and on. Thank God it is so
-easy to skip over huge amounts of boring stuff like that! (hint:
-from five days between their engagement and the wedding, just
-gathering in the park outside of Grimmauld Place and meeting at
-Dursleys’ carries the plot, whole day of visiting Hogwarts and
-ZOO, which is like two chapters, can be safely skipped)
+the same amount of action?” [#]_ OK, romance can have less
+adventure than Moby Dick, but this story with this incredible
+repetitive nature (where even Hermione gets so bored, she
+obviously forgot Harry has already told her he was Roman-Catholic
+and they would have a wedding ordained by his parish priest even
+telling her his name) and long descriptions of everything
+completely useless in terms of plot, just goes on and on and on.
+Thank God it is so easy to skip over huge amounts of boring stuff
+like that! (hint: from five days between their engagement and the
+wedding, just gathering in the park outside of Grimmauld Place
+and meeting at Dursleys’ carries the plot, whole day of visiting
+Hogwarts and ZOO, which is like two chapters, can be safely
+skipped)
 
 However, as I have described elsewhere_, lack of editing is
 completely normal in the fanfiction world, and I wouldn’t write
@@ -52,6 +53,17 @@ Christians, even though their faith is certainly not in the
 centre of the story, it is just characteristic of some
 characters, who are dealing with some other plot.
 
+.. [#] If your story has one million words, the question is
+   whether you want it to be as boring as `Clarissa by Samuel
+   Richardson`_, normally considered to be the longest novel in
+   the English literature. ;)
+
+.. [#] Actually, it is mentioned in “Breakfast in New York”, that
+   Hermione did pray Rosary during the Deathly Hallows camping
+   trip, and just by listening to her whispered prayers, Harry
+   converts to Christianity and only later finds out Potters were
+   as a family traditionally Catholics … no comments.
+
 .. _`Breakfast in New York`:
     https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5141159
 
@@ -70,8 +82,5 @@ characters, who are dealing with some other plot.
 .. _`Why Time Travel Should Be Illegal and Other Morals by mugglesftw`:
    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12738075
 
-.. [#] Actually, it is mentioned in “Breakfast in New York”, that
-   Hermione did pray Rosary during the Deathly Hallows camping
-   trip, and just by listening to her whispered prayers, Harry
-   converts to Christianity and only later finds out Potters were
-   as a family traditionally Catholics … no comments.
+.. _`Clarissa by Samuel Richardson`:
+   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels