<span>"His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a genuine Dutch family, snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse, under a spreading sycamore, he looked upon it as a little clasped volume of black-letter,' and studied it with the zeal of a book-worm.""Rip Van Winkle," 1994 edition, 1-2
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The correct answer is listen to.
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Answer:
The author does not want the narrator's personality to interfere with the story.
Explanation:
The author's main objective is to develop a whole story from the begining to the end. The focus is on the events which may be unfolded through a long period of time. The narrator will try to be objective since the story is more important than the narrator's emotions.
The first one because it provides formal evidence against the claim
