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William Strunk, Jr. B. 1869 Cincinnati / D. 9.26.1946 ? Unclear Here I am at Copy Editing 101, seeking alternatives, and contemplating a brick wall across the way, through the window. The workshop conductor opens: “I’m going to speak loudly.” Sweet "loudly," surprising me: Too long since I’ve sat where it hasn’t been “loud.” Sweet balm on Lower Broadway—I feel that I’m healed, somehow. I can straighten my spine. Adverbial healing! The workshop conductor has to speak loudly: there must be eighty people in the room a long hot room at mediabistro. Career education: Polish your shell! Swiftly I perceive that I’m not the only one who’s heard copy editors have a relatively easeful time of it in this world of toil. (“No, you’re supposed to use an n-dash there, not an m-dash. That will be thirty-five dollars an hour, please.”) Work two weeks in the month—granted they’re hectic. I picture a hapless editor, pawing at me for the edited copy; I contemplate Bartleby’s view: “I would prefer not to.”
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