Hem...again

...I am glad always to make it conventional as to punctuation.  About the words- I have made a notation at the side about the bed pan.  Originally I had about 2,000 words of that aspect of hospital life.  It really dominates it.  I cut it all with the exception of the one reference to the bed pan.

It's the same with other words.

You say they have not been in print before- one may not have- but the others are all in Shakespeare.  

If a word can be printed and is needed in the text it is a weakening to omit it.  If you say you think a word must go,  I consider you leaving that a blank.

You know what General Cambronne said at the battle of Waterloo instead of "the old guard dies but never surrenders."  He said Merde when they called on him to surrender.

Yours always

  Ernest

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