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August 23, 2013
Writing Well: The Editor
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
--Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut 3 lines from a 5,000 word article.
Posted by JD Hull at August 23, 2013 12:00 AM