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Subject:RE: What's the significance of a draft From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:40:57 -0400
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From: Anita Legsdin [mailto:anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:17 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: What's the significance of a draft
How I dealt with that kind of person in a previous job: deliberately put
one or two mistakes in the draft, to divert his attention. He was delighted
to catch me making an error, and I was delighted to have my manuscript
returned relatively intact. (Have I mentioned I have Scorpio--a.k.a.
devious manipulator--strong in my chart?)
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Ah, the Persian Rug error.
It seems, in ancient Persia (and maybe to this day), when they were weaving
rugs, they would drop a stitch or introduce an error into the weave. The way
I heard it was that when they were making them, they always make a mistake
at the very last because they believe that no human is perfect and to try
was an insult to Allah.
When I'm submitting something that I think is finished and someone finds an
error, I tell them I did it for this reason...odd thing, they never believe
me.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
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