"Another day of knowing of the path I fear to tread."

Sep 28, 2017 10:00

It's not even 10 a.m., and already my mind is a white hot roil of anger. This will be the third consecutive day. Outside, it sunny and 77˚F.

Yesterday, we began work on the Silk ms., using optical character recognition to scan the text of the 2007 revision (the so-called "third edition"), as there are no extant electronic files of that edition. ( Read more... )

david mitchell, wasted days, anger, exhaustion, cloud atlas, suicide, pain, silk, patti smith, misery, lost days

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captaincurt81 September 28 2017, 15:31:30 UTC
May you find escape from anger AND Gabapentin. That med did nothing positive for me.

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setsuled September 28 2017, 16:46:32 UTC
I'm sorry you had such a miserable experience. I hope to-day's a better day.

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sovay September 28 2017, 17:41:07 UTC
and what Penguin gave me is useless. We're having to tear a copy of the paperback to pieces to be able to scan it.

I have proofed OCRs against original texts before and I am happy to help however I can.

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