I still haven't gotten over being appalled at the whole high-schoolish "popularity contest" aspect of publishing.
Which, of course, just makes me wonder what exactly you encountered to make this old distaste arise to the fore (or more likely, the rear...of your mouth where one tends to accumilate bile from dyspepsic eruptions...).
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Date: 2008-06-13 05:51 pm (UTC)I still haven't gotten over being appalled at the whole high-schoolish "popularity contest" aspect of publishing.
Which, of course, just makes me wonder what exactly you encountered to make this old distaste arise to the fore (or more likely, the rear...of your mouth where one tends to accumilate bile from dyspepsic eruptions...).