We don't need to worry- is it a simple sentece?

Read these sentences from edgar allan poe's "the angel of the odd": it was a chilly november afternoon. i had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room with my feet upon the fender and at my elbow a small table which i had rolled up to the fire, … which element of this text suggests the events happened long ago? details about a fire descriptions of the furniture use of first-person narrator word choice and word order

Fortify is a verb that means “to protect and strengthen.” a fortifications is a that means something that protects.

What is the most likely reason schlosser uses a direct quotation in this example excerpt from fast food nation