ATDDTA (6) 178-179
Tore Rye Andersen
torerye at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 12 15:16:53 CDT 2007
>>I think I've already mentioned a couple of times that the only italicized
>>words on page 380 of GR's 760 pages are "right in the middle of it"
>
>OK, but how exactly "right in the middle" are those italics,
>word-count wise on that page? And is that the "true" middle,
>word-count wise, for the whole book? And what is the VERY MIDDLE
>LETTER for both words-counts?
In a spirit of scientific inquiry I once tried sticking a pin in between the
words 'the' and 'middle' in that quote, and the book balanced just
perfectly! (And that's why there are no blurbs and no author photo on the
back cover of the first edition: the additional ink would make the book keel
over.)
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