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transitional sentence. The author Thomas Wolfe knew that editorial cuts were absolutely essestial for him. Legend has it that the complete manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel that Wolfe sent to his editor Maxwell Perkins measured three feet high, or some 6,000 pages. Actually it was about a third of that, and the novel still had to be cut extensively. Often Wolfe would agree to cut only if he were allowed to write what he called a “transitional sentence.” The transitional sentences would turn into transitional paragraphs, pages, and chapters, but his work was usually pruned into shape by his editors. |