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Saturday, September 23, 2006

Calling All Editors
I've long been a fan of the Artemis Fowl series, since before it was a series really. Colffer is a genius in the realm of sci-fi/fantasy, in my opinion. A technologically advanced Tolkien, if you will. He puts a lot of detail and backstory into his world, and that's something I really value.
And so there is yet another Fowl book out, The Lost Colony. I'm about a quarter of the way through and I've already hit two typos. In fact, recently I was reading Why Do Men Have Nipples? and Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? and found many typos there as well. I certainly don't blame it on the author because it sometimes takes me a year to find a typo I wrote while in a frenzied flurry of typing. But I do blame the editor(s), because that's their job, to find those things, to pore over the manuscript until their eyes bleed and find every last mistake. If I do it for my friends' papers for free, I think these adults can do it for some cash. If you are not tired of the story by the time you are done editing it, do it again until you are. Chances are you skimmed some bits.
I call upon all grammar nazis and OCD spellers to lend a hand in the literary world. Perfection of technique leads to clarity, and without clarity there's no point in reading something at all. So save the failing literature of today, and teach everyone that proofreading is clarity, clarity is truth, and truth is beauty.

I got the album Faith by Hyde the other day (it was backordered so it didn't come with the previous shipment) and I love it to bits. Hyde has gone rather dark lately, it would seem. Catching a ride on the gothic visK train, perhaps? Doesn't matter, he's still got the most beautiful voice in the world. I wish he'd kept his hair long though. ;_;
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