LShecut2nd

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Just a word of encouragement. I understand the drive to complete a task such as yours. I recently did a twelve-page document that no one had read through for 200 years, and I couldn't stop until it was finished. To get almost there would have haunted me to my grave, though the crowded sidewriting and squiggly insertions probably did lasting damage to my eyesight. Good luck, and take comfort in the thought that you are like a palelontologist picking clean a dinosaur bone to the benefit of science. --Milkbreath (talk) 12:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC) Thanks. It's good to be encouraged during these winter days. This work will be the only thing I leave behind. The manuscripts will be given to the University of Michigan which holds the Hubbard family papers. Someday a new edition may come out (electronic version, of course), and someone else can make an attempt to create the work as Hubbard would have liked to have seen it. I like to read writings of previous centuries where authors/publishers were more free in the use of punctuation. Lynn Truss said that no two copy-editors will agree on commas. I think individuals hear the lines differently. It is as if only notes were given to two musicians. Each would phrase the passages differently. I think that jounalism has done a great damage to writing in our age. Space is at a premium, so writing and punctuation have to be whittled down. I have learned that hyphenation is a slippery slope. Imagine: half-moon but full moon!LShecut2nd (talk) 17:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Dream question

I answered your question at the Humanities Desk. --Dweller (talk) 11:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)