Subject: Re: editorial
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 04:36:37 EST
At 8:05 AM +0000 on 3/15/2000, Scottie wrote:
> It also, to my mind, illustrates the essential irrelevance
> of the editor - at least where the big boys are concerned.
It certainly applies to Hemingway. Editing on his work seems to have
consisted mainly of mechanical matters: spelling, syntax,
consistency, style (i.e., conformance with the Scribners style),
objectionable words (after all, even in the Roaring Twenties there
was a Puritanical streak a mile wide in most publishing houses),
internal coherence. As far as I know, Max Perkins didn't concern
himself with serious line editing; in his good years, Hemingway was
sufficiently tough on himself that he didn't send a manuscript in
until it was as he wanted it.
--tim
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