reading Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, a piece of high octane award bait about being a talented neurosurgeon and ~philosopher of mortality~ then finding out you're going to die young of cancer, and there's this passage in it that is just bugging the shit out of me
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so this is my current attempt to figure out in what fashion exactly a dead dude is making fun of me for reading his book, hope you've had fun on this journey
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wasn’t it published posthumously? I bet it would’ve been changed if his editor had anyone to give notes to. as anyone who’s edited a manuscript written by the unquiet dead can tell you, making changes is a great way to get haunted for the rest of your life.
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hm, yes it was. makes sense
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What if an editor was the one who insisted that anecdote be added to the book?
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gross
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I didn't know until recently that editorial standards at publishing houses were very poor. I recently edited a published author's novel and he said he hadn't seen such rigor to craft since he was published by Random House in the 80s. I'm like, just doing my job, man!
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I think it was the 90s when Tor editors started making their authors worse instead of better.
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was going to say best explanation is he's a stanford->cambridge->yale->stanford guy who probably never paused to eat ice cream, but he grew up in kingman az so it's not possible he didn't actually understand melted cream
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