Re: editorial


Subject: Re: editorial
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 07:44:44 EST


On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/15/00 8:07:41 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com writes:
>
> << >
> > It also, to my mind, illustrates the essential irrelevance
> > of the editor - at least where the big boys are concerned.
>
> And then there is T.S. Eliot and his buddy, the red pen wielding Pound.
>
> -j >>
>
> I was going to say...there are examples to the contrary. Yeats is another.
> The man just didn't understand the finer points of spelling and punctuation,
> and needed editorial help with them both.

Neither Scottie, nor I were talking about spelling and punctuation. Lots
of writers, heavies or not, need a bit of help with copy-editing. What
Pound did for Eliot is cross out half of the "Wasteland" manuscript.

   Hemingway said that every writer needs an "iron clad, bullet-proof,
shit detector." Pound was just that.

   Of course, Pound didn't have a Pound; his "Cantos" prove that.

-j

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