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Years ago, I remember reading a novel (I think it was The Three Musketeers, maybe?) that had a few paragraphs inside parenthesis, and it followed the convention for a multiple paragraph quotation:

(Paragraph 1.
(Paragraph 2.
(Paragraph 3.)

So I'm curious, is this actually a convention? Google search seems to be failing me here.

I'm asking entirely out of curiosity, by the way. I don't currently have any intention of using a multiple paragraph parenthetical in my own writing.

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    This would be a matter of style, and vary according to which style guide you were following, but I can't imagine any editor would approve of multiple paragraphs being formatted as a parenthetical. Either you integrate it into the text or put it in an appendix. I cannot think of a situation in modern writing where that practice could be justified. – choster Mar 04 '16 at 22:07
  • Not Paragraph 1.) Paragraph 2. Paragraph 3.? {One for all and all for one.} – Edwin Ashworth Mar 04 '16 at 22:24

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This is the convention for quotation marks. I haven't seen it for parentheses, but it's a reasonable parallel.

See How should I use quotation marks in sections of multiline dialogue?

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