Philip Hart writes:
>On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>> What do you think P. uses? Options:
>>
>> Manual dictation (a secretary)
>> Magical dictation (an animated quill)
>> Other... ?
>Presumably (following the Dumas model) he writes an outline, has
>a prose-farm do a first draft, then adds some color at the end.
IIRC, this is actually a false rumor -- Dumas did often work with
collaberators (one at a time, usually), but no more.
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