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Dear Author:
Thank you for submitting your manuscript. I notice it was printed on a smashing 50-lb. glossy paper (what at first I thought was a 250-page manuscript is actually less than half that). However, you have used a single-spaced line setting in addition to a line-break paragraph setting with no indentation. This makes the manuscript ill-suited for editing.
I do, however, prefer to edit on-screen, which is good that you also submitted a CD with the digital files. I sincerely hope you will not be upset by the fact that your hardcopy is suitable only for reading, and this is not something I wish to do with it because even with an initial reading, making notes is important. Moreover, making notes on glossy paper is a pain in the ass.
Put another way: you wasted the money you spent on paper, printing, and postage. More specifically, you spent twice as much as you should have under appropriate circumstances and it was for naught.
Sincerely,
Your Humble Servant and Editor
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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