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greygirlbeast

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Apr 28, 2018 12:20

Sunny today, currently 62˚F, with a projected high of 66˚F. We're about to have a couple of cool days, but then it should reach 80˚F on Wednesday - and the two days thereafter.

Yesterday, I had to spend four grueling, infuriating hours typing up an itemized list seventy-eight corrections to Black Helicopters to send to Tor (having already sent ( Read more... )

t.s. eliot, paleontology, wasted days, memory, yale, lewis carroll, warmer weather, things on walls, the expanse, mark twain, copyeditors, anger, idiots, mosasaurs, disappointment, black helicopters, olneyville

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sovay April 28 2018, 19:37:49 UTC

I want to live in a world where copyeditors do not try to rewrite authors' texts and where they are literate enough to recognize quotations from Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, and T.S. Eliot and know it's inappropriate to "correct" their - okay, I'm still angry.

That would be funny if it were not completely unreasonable. We have the internet. You can check quotations by all of those people in microseconds. No library visits involved. What the hell.

everville340 April 28 2018, 19:53:02 UTC

I can only speak for myself, but I would gladly pay for the 2nd printing over a year in advance (as Subterranean Press does with their editions), simply because it's the one you would be pleased with.