I've never had an editor; I subscribe to the Kantian standard you so aptly described. Just have to say how much I enjoy needing a dictionary to read your essays. Not many things make me feel young and inexperienced and curious in my middle age.
I'm sorry for your loss, Justin. That was a beautiful tribute.
Earlier this month, I found not one but two typos in my print version of the New Yorker. It really knocked my world off its axis. You calling it perfect reminded me. I'm still shocked!
First, I had to look up 'hapax' - thanks for that. Any essay of yours will contain a number of interesting hapaxes (cf. 'coquilles'). But since you finished with a mention of owls, I'll point out that the Hebrew word 'קִפוֹז' ('kippoz') is given as an example of a Biblical hapax and is sometimes translated as 'owl'.
“You must be so, you cannot flee yourself
Thus sybils long ago pronounced, thus prophets,
And neither time nor any power can dismember
Characteristic form, living, self-developing”.
Orphic Primal Words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've never had an editor; I subscribe to the Kantian standard you so aptly described. Just have to say how much I enjoy needing a dictionary to read your essays. Not many things make me feel young and inexperienced and curious in my middle age.
I'm sorry for your loss, Justin. That was a beautiful tribute.
Earlier this month, I found not one but two typos in my print version of the New Yorker. It really knocked my world off its axis. You calling it perfect reminded me. I'm still shocked!
First, I had to look up 'hapax' - thanks for that. Any essay of yours will contain a number of interesting hapaxes (cf. 'coquilles'). But since you finished with a mention of owls, I'll point out that the Hebrew word 'קִפוֹז' ('kippoz') is given as an example of a Biblical hapax and is sometimes translated as 'owl'.
This is a good and underappreciated point about editing, although you may be overextrapolating based on your own skill as a writer.
I agree with your premise but you, you specifically are a rambling maniac and must be stopped