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Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 14 04:07:27 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> I always thought newspapers went to press, but books went to print. Am
>> I mistaken?

Damfino. I've always made a distinction between going "to press," and
being "in print" as relevant to any publication, without ever
considering "going to print" at all. But that doesn't make me right.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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