The Subversive Perversity of Layout Editors
Martin Amis is an unusual man. For this reason, when I saw that the Financial Times had interviewed him in their Lunch with FT feature, I couldn't wait to read it. Now, I cannot wait to tell you about it.
The FT is quintessentially British. It is deeply British. It is cup o' tea, God Save the Queen, la-dee-dah, British. So delightfully so, in fact, that their Lunch with FT actually includes the menu for their meal. Rest assured that there was mineral water and peppermint tea served.
But I am not writing this blog to discuss the British. I am writing it to condemn their filthy minded layout editors. I will quote from the first column of this article a portion of the third and fourth paragraphs with all line-breaks included:
professor. Eagleton has
accused Amis of Islamopho-
bia, castigating him for
advocating strip-searches of
young British Muslims and
raising the threat of repatri-
ation to Pakistan.
"I never wrote it and I
never said it," snaps Amis.
He does however admit to
favoring ethnic profiling at
airports after an incident at
Carasco airport in Montevi-
deo, Uruguay. Amis claims
a security guard searched his
then six-year-old daughter
and "f***-f****d her fluffy
...and then there's a fold in the page. A fold. Right after a security guard searched Amis's six-year-old daughter and "f***-f****d— which I can only assume is fist-fucked— her fluffy...something or other. There is something deeply wrong with a layout editor who leaves that kind of cliff-hanger on one line—above the fold, so to speak. Now, maybe I'm the pervert here, a possibility that I heartily contest, but isn't this weird? It is.
For the curious, it was a fluffy toy duck that was fist-fucked.
The FT is quintessentially British. It is deeply British. It is cup o' tea, God Save the Queen, la-dee-dah, British. So delightfully so, in fact, that their Lunch with FT actually includes the menu for their meal. Rest assured that there was mineral water and peppermint tea served.
But I am not writing this blog to discuss the British. I am writing it to condemn their filthy minded layout editors. I will quote from the first column of this article a portion of the third and fourth paragraphs with all line-breaks included:
professor. Eagleton has
accused Amis of Islamopho-
bia, castigating him for
advocating strip-searches of
young British Muslims and
raising the threat of repatri-
ation to Pakistan.
"I never wrote it and I
never said it," snaps Amis.
He does however admit to
favoring ethnic profiling at
airports after an incident at
Carasco airport in Montevi-
deo, Uruguay. Amis claims
a security guard searched his
then six-year-old daughter
and "f***-f****d her fluffy
...and then there's a fold in the page. A fold. Right after a security guard searched Amis's six-year-old daughter and "f***-f****d— which I can only assume is fist-fucked— her fluffy...something or other. There is something deeply wrong with a layout editor who leaves that kind of cliff-hanger on one line—above the fold, so to speak. Now, maybe I'm the pervert here, a possibility that I heartily contest, but isn't this weird? It is.
For the curious, it was a fluffy toy duck that was fist-fucked.
posted by jw at
10:31 AM
1 Comments:
May those of us who are righteous and brilliant enough to still care UNITE. Unite under the banner of brilliant publishing! Banish all things lackluster!
It's that kind of day here. Have I told you my story about the book I proofed that I'd left this way at the blues/proofs: "insert figure caption here"?
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