<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338225" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Printer's Error</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fellow compositors<br>and pressworkers!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, Chief Printer<br>Frank Steinman,<br>having worked fifty-<br>seven years at my trade,<br>and served five years<br>as president<br>of the Holliston<br>Printer's Council,<br>being of sound mind<br>though near death,<br>leave this testimonial<br>concerning the nature<br>of printers' errors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First: I hold that all books<br>and all printed<br>matter have<br>errors, obvious or no,<br>and that these are their<br>most significant moments,<br>not to be tampered with<br>by the vanity and folly<br>of ignorant, academic<br>textual editors.<br>Second: I hold that there are<br>three types of errors, in ascending<br>order of importance:<br>One: chance errors<br>of the printer's trembling hand<br>not to be corrected incautiously<br>by foolish professors<br>and other such rabble<br>because trembling is part<br>of divine creation itself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two: silent, cool sabotage<br>by the printer,<br>the manual laborer<br>whose protests<br>have at times taken this<br>historical form,<br>covert interferences<br>not to be corrected<br>censoriously by the hand<br>of the second and far<br>more ignorant saboteur,<br>the textual editor.<br>Three: errors<br>from the touch of God,<br>divine and often<br>obscure corrections<br>of whole books by<br>nearly unnoticed changes<br>of single letters<br>sometimes meaningful but<br>about which the less said<br>by preemptive commentary<br>the better.<br>Third: I hold that all three<br>sorts of error,<br>errors by chance,<br>errors by workers' protest,<br>and errors by<br>God's touch,<br>are in practice the<br>same and indistinguishable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore I,<br>Frank Steinman,<br>typographer<br>for thirty-seven years,<br>and cooperative Master<br>of the Holliston Guild<br>eight years,<br>being of sound mind and body<br>though near death<br>urge the abolition<br>of all editorial work<br>whatsoever<br>and manumission<br>from all textual editing<br>to leave what was<br>as it was, and<br>as it became,<br>except insofar as editing<br>is itself an error, and</div><div style="margin:10px 0">therefore also divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aaron+Fogel">Aaron Fogel</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338225" data-title="The Printer's Error de Aaron Fogel" data-description="Fellow compositors and pressworkers! I, Chief Printer Frank Steinman, having worked fifty- seven years at my trade, and served five years as president of the Holliston Printer's Council, being of sound mind though near death, leave this testimoni..."></div> </div> </div>

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