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if only [dot] org: s.j. and the blue pencil: "Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." That's what I did today. Even if the words that were left didn't amount to the required quota. Scratch. Start again. Nine hours of telling myself: "No, one fancy analogy per paragraph is enough, dear." (After this one I am going to retire from my 'writing U2 books' career. There's only so much U2 drivel one can stand and I'd already had more than my quota back in 1989. But mostly, I'm frustrated by the limits of my grasp of the English language.)