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