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O Everett. I'm so glad you're on the job about intellectual
responsibility. In fact, however, the author is not responsible
either, as we now know; the reader is. Therefore we can call it the
slug as that's what the earlier reader on this group called it.
(Although my own interpretation of his authorial term "slug" is of a
slimy long shell-less arthropod, so I think *I'll* call it a banana,
and since I'm the reader, I'm right.)
I do think the most descriptive
of the ones you've found is "print history line." Perhaps, as now I'm
being an author, I can call it the "print history banana." You of
course (being a reader) will want to call it something else.
John Lancaster regards as beneath our dignity (chuckle) our
considering the specific *form* of the print history banana. I note
however that at least one form appears to divide symmetrically around
the center, that is to say, it forks. We may finally be reaching
closure on the discussion of a year ago.
It's August.
From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries
Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries
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