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Acknowledgments
When the editor of a book is mentioned in the acknowledgments,
it's often interesting to look for what's not
said. Since there are almost always difficulties between
author and editor, and since there's no point in writing
an acknowledgment if it's going to be negative, authors
tend to "accentuate the positive." But you won't have
to read between the lines here-working with Ted Buswick
has been a complete delight in every way.
Ron Lichty continues his unbroken string of acknowledgments
in my books (six for six). He read a
draft of the first three chapters and made many helpful
suggestions-as did that computer wizard and inexhaustible
source of ban mots, Fred Davis. For their reading
of the same draft, Mike Bradley and Meg Holmberg
tried to pretend they knew less about computers than
they do; their comments helped me see where my writing
was obscure, confusing and-worst of all-not
funny.
I also want to express my appreciation to five small
islands of competence and sanity in a sea of bureaucratic
ineptitude so vast and deep it would flabbergast
even an employee of the New York City Board of Education
(connoisseurs of world-class passive aggression will
appreciate the enormity of this statement). How the Apple
Computer Company managed, in a few short years,
to grow into something beyond Kafka's wildest nightix