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Thursday, January 10, 2002
Stakes and Garlic From GRACE NOTES - an elderly composer speaking to a young one, who is visiting him. She has just played one of her compositions. He says very little, then he asks to hear something she is working on. "Let me hear work in progress. If I hear an opus you think is finished and I say do this and do that - you are unhappy. But if an opus is under construction, if you have problem with it and I say do this and do that - you are happy." Which pretty much explains our reaction to another round of edits on TP, prior to its formal print-run. I went through this stage with LEGACIES - struggling with BLUEHEART, which was sinking like a stone canoe, and every time I laid LEGACIES to rest, it would arise rise again. At least once it went between covers, that was the end of it; it was finished, Thovalt's magical shirt, Lian's duplicate actions and small medical boner immortalized. But TP, it seems, is not yet finished. More remains to be explained. And so I have sent a bunch of edited-edits back to Lynda, who has borne the brunt of this one with me being (a) in the UK, (b) sick and (c) not cc'd in.
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