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Not related to the content, but perfectionists take note: He misspelled Boys By.. and simple overwrote the y with o until it looked right. He even crossed out a
by aw3c2 15y ago
Not related to the content, but perfectionists take note: He misspelled Boys By.. and simple overwrote the y with o until it looked right. He even crossed out a word further in. He did not throw away the paper and restarted from scratch. Yet still he sent this message and now we look at it and praise it 40 years later.
- jrockway 15y agoHe did correct his mistakes, though. In modern terms, this would be the equivalent of publishing something without the mistakes, because there is no time or materials cost associated with correcting misspellings. When Asimov wrote this letter, though, it would have cost him a sheet of paper to type the letter without mistakes, and he apparently did not find that a worthwhile investment. Note also that none of his books have overwritten words :)
- mturmon 15y agoAsimov did all the typing himself (no dictation, no longhand). IIRC he was proud of his very fast typing skills.
- salemh 15y agoI am struggling to find a very specific source (because graphology has much fluff surrounding it), but, graphology / handwriting analysis suggests the type of corrections one uses can be indicative of personality traits. Such as confidence; in not furiously destroying or scribbling a typo (or even a full sentence) vs a simple line strike-through. General website with some interesting examples. http://graphicinsight.co.za/writingsamples.htm http://graphicinsight.co.za/writingsamples.htm