Bill wrote:
"It's rare you get to see a writer treat a published book as
a draft like that."
What struck me as particularly odd in my comparison was how
the structure -- everything from the chapter breaks (this is
how I compared, by reading the first couple paragraphs of
each chapter) down to the very sentence order remains the
same, while the construction of those sentences in the same
order varies so much. You'd think recasting the sentences
(usually by reversing the order of the clauses) would at
least occasionally lead to changing the pattern of the
sentences themselves.
Mark
ps -- as far as Bill's comment goes, isn't Tim O'Brien known
for significant rewrites between editions of his books?
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