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Posted by dorayme on 04/26/06 02:49
In article <op.s8jwh6q4l8uz2z@zoete_b>,
"Barbara de Zoete" <trashbin@pretletters.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:20:30 +0200, dorayme
> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > In article <op.s8iu4ds8l8uz2z@zoete_b>,
> > "Barbara de Zoete" <trashbin@pretletters.net> wrote:
> >>
> >
> > It's bloody hot in your killfile at the moment.
>
> You haven't been in my kf since last Christmas. I just didn't feel the
> need to communicate with you.
> Every once in a while I clean out my kf. Just to see if anything has
> changed with the kf'ed or maybe I was wrong to put them there, just
> because I was in a bad mood with a low threshold, too easily annoyed.
> Either way, I never thought it necessary to kf you again since january.
>
> So, there you have it.
You have at one stroke changed the parameters of a big project I
was engaged in: a book of my time in your kf. It is being written
in the present tense and now, either I have to publish as is and
let my publisher deal with the tense in the blurb, or change it
to past tense and find some other way to reinstate the drama that
present tense writing allowed.
And no use Grep pattern replacing really, Grep has no aesthetic
sense, the woodeness of any change would be apparent. I have work
ahead.
Decisions, decisions...
(I don't suppose you would consider putting me back in for
another few weeks to finish my project and keep hush about the
"since Christmas". I have every intention of giving you a
percentage of the royalties, it might be a very big hit indeed.)
Anyway, best wishes and all that...
--
dorayme
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