originally a much longer manuscript, pruning and rearranging individual
items so that they began to take shape. Hank’s long and totally informed cri-
tique raised those hard questions that provided me with the challenge to
undertake revision, essay by essay. In the few cases when I did not take his
advice and preferred to include essay X rather than Y, I felt that I was carrying
on a dialogue with a highly trusted mentor. This book obviously would not
exist without his and Charles’s initiative and guidance.
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