Don't Tamper With the Property of the U.S. Mail

[jhetley]

Sent DRAGON'S TEETH back to the Nice Editor Lady this morning, with the usual plethora of "stet" marks. No, "green-bronze" does not mean the same thing as "green bronze." And in _my_ universe, Humpty Dumpty makes that quote about words meaning whatever he intends them to mean. Not the Red Queen. However, I have heard much worse horror-stories about copy-edits.

Now I can get back to Fat Wizard and the missing FBI agent.

Temperatures today up into the 40s F, with predictions of sub-zero for the weekend. This climactic menopause bit is getting old.

And I ordered two boxes of those "remaindered" SUMMER COUNTRY trade paperbacks, 58 books. Only the march of time will tell whether that represents too many or too few.

Comments

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

And in _my_ universe, Humpty Dumpty makes that quote about words meaning whatever he intends them to mean.

Um, there's a universe where he doesn't?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Apparently. The copy-editor seems to live in a parallel universe, with superior grammar to mine but a slightly different Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.