The appearance seems to depend both on the browser and the window size and I ve been fiddling with the image placement to try to balance them I don t like the block quote template as it doesn t seem to do anything and I prefer quotes of this sort to stand out typographically in some way The quote in this case seems to have a Dickensian sound to it which provides a sense of the period I m hoping that the readership will like it but critics abound alas Anyway thanks for your input