Re: Local Breads by Dan Leader

"Barry Harmon" <johnfrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "graham" <g.stereo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Barry Harmon" <johnfrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Thanks Barry for writing this up and saving us the trouble of waste
>>>> and time.  But I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say that
>>>> his editor let him down.
>>>>
>>>> Dee Dee
>>>>
>>>
>>> An editor is supposed to catch grammar and usage errors, that's true.
>>>  But there should also be a process whereby someone reads the
>>> manuscript and says "Huh?  This doesn't make sense."
>>>
>>> I don't know if this comes under the heading fact checker or
>>> researcher or what, but this kind of error shouldn't be allowed to
>>> slip through.
>>>
>>> Barry
>>>
>> Nor should the ice-cubes nonsense!
>> Graham
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> Touche!!  But that was a carryover from his first book, "Bread Alone,"
> which was literally a mathematical programming exercise:
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> Maximize: number of pages
> Minimize: content
>
> Subject to: Reader nausea < violent
>
> Or, an alternative formulation:
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> Maximize:  Number of pages
>
> Subject to:
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> Content at hand <= what they had
> Reader nausea < violent
>
> Never thought I'd use this stuff taling about baking bread.  Danzig
> moves in strange ways.
>
It's Friday!!  You're allowed to drift a bit{:-)
Graham