Making Light:  Author Identity Publishing ::: April 04, 2007, 09:38 AM

James (#119)

  Check out the bizarre quotemarks in "Young Goodman Brown."

That's what happens when you want to create ``directed'' quotes out of
plain ASCII.  I first saw this used in the TeX language.  Of course,
it's better when you run it through a text processor, or even print
it in a font that has slanted apostrophes.  I think some fonts even
have curly apostrophes and render grave accents as inverted curly
apostrophes.  But when you're into cut-and-paste-and-don't-worry,
that stuff goes out the window.

But given the ASCII quotes, I expect the PD text was ripped off the
web somewhere.  I think the Gutenberg project has restrictions on
commercial use--I wonder if someone might not have bothered to check
on that, being a big-time lawyer and all.  It would be interesting if
he got to pay for that, on top of the "out-of-the-cell" revisionism
in the PW article.

``Why in a million years would I want to ruin the name of a character
I am trying to brand?''  The usual answer is ``because you wore the
juice, so you thought you would get away with it.''