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| Friday, January 18, 2002
Friday night's tinkering Produced a tidied up Chapter 17 and a spliced together Chapter 20 and 22, as Lynda and I discussed on the phone. The timebomb we'd set ticking in Chapter 17 had been ticking quite long enough by Chapter 20. And we couldn't get clear what we wanted to do in 21. Could we do without that chapter; yes. Therefore it went. Expression of one of the laws of novel construction: eliminate.
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