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A publisher sent a six page, thirty one term glossary for approval. Twenty six of the terms were already explained by the sentences around them. The glossary was not informing readers, it was confessing which sentences had failed.
A dead brother's name changed in chapter four and reappeared unchanged in chapter nineteen, invisible across a dozen French rereadings. It surfaced in a single afternoon once I read the same page in English.