16 november 1995 (fragments from notes and memories after a computer crash!):

Thinking of the necessity, in book publishing, to print enough copies to earn the money to pay for professional print people, I wrote:

     Aha, I see that it's pay not profits that is or are 
     the main obstacle to decentral publishing and 
     to reaching the joys of dismantling . . . 

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(and here I stopped to look up 'dismantle' in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary for I did not remember using the word before in this context)

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Somehow these vivid examples of showed me that I am not as ignorant of the old meaning of mantle as I thought I was and they interest me greatly.

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