Thursday, June 22, 2006

This says it all really ...




"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."

Oscar Wilde

4 comments:

Erin said...

Lol, HA! How true is that?

Di Mackey said...

So very very very true ... that comma can take so long to place.

Anonymous said...

The devil has always been in the details :)

Di Mackey said...

Lol, yes anil.

A friend who was editing my climber interviews would almost tear out his hair as I argued over the placement of 'the's' ... showing him rewrites.

Moral of the story - friends shouldn't edit. :)