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The best three sentences, chosen to make you forget the other three hundred pages.

means A short passage pulled out from a longer piece of writing, standing in for the whole.

from From Latin excerptum, 'something picked out,' built from ex- ('out') plus carpere ('to pluck or gather') — the same carpere that gives us 'carpe diem,' seize the day. An excerpt is literally a plucked fruit, harvested from the bigger tree of text.

etymology
from Latin excerptum, meaning picked out
marketing trick
always the best-written part of the book
movie equivalent
basically a trailer for text
risk
can misrepresent the whole by design
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