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“the question (is) whether an author is an organism engaged in the production of utterances, an activity which as a human organism he cannot avoid, even when alone and engaged in covert utterance, or whether he is an individual. so far there have appeared no grounds, save linguistic hypostatization and literary hagiolatry, for considering him an individual. the notion to be understood here is that he is but an organism and not an individual or monad or entity which can be differentiated from other similar entities… there is no reason why one cannot regard a piece of writing as the common product of all beings who have come in contact with it and reacted to it; when it is viewed in this way, any change, made at any time, whether by the original publisher’s editor, by the author, or by a later “editor,” has the same status and may be judged to improved the work, harmed it, or left it the same.” -tanselle
Textual Criticism Since Greg: A Chronicle, 1950-1985
