Editing the Jest

[Daniel Stein]

>Speaking of editing....in Time magazine Wallace states he found
>710,000 typos in the proofs of Infinite Jest...
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>chris
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Hmmmm...thats about 500 per page unless reports of the book's length are highly
exaggerated...

or about one in each and every word on each and every page...

Maybe Wallace's fictional math is better than his
back-of-the-(submission)-envelope math...