I first learned about Armistice Day as a young 'un from that Vonnegut passage.
NEW changes to the text
Ugh, hate that. I used to work for an academic journal, and sometimes the final galleys would come back from the publisher with Inexplicable Weirdness neither we nor the authors had asked for in first proofs. (And not just recurring problems with Greek text; that was explicable.) So it turned a quick check to make sure specific changes had been made into a long check to make sure random changes hadn't.
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Date: 2011-11-11 05:59 pm (UTC)NEW changes to the text
Ugh, hate that. I used to work for an academic journal, and sometimes the final galleys would come back from the publisher with Inexplicable Weirdness neither we nor the authors had asked for in first proofs. (And not just recurring problems with Greek text; that was explicable.) So it turned a quick check to make sure specific changes had been made into a long check to make sure random changes hadn't.