Editing the Jest

Edward Heinemann word at leland.stanford.edu
Thu Feb 15 20:19:44 CST 1996


> 
> Speaking of editing....in Time magazine Wallace states he found
> 710,000 typos in the proofs of Infinite Jest...
> 

I'd put even odds on this being the book's approx. word count...and on
this being, um, uh, a joke...Or a jest, as it were...

Ed





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