The Oldest Confession: Revision history

24 January 2009

• curprev 22:5322:53, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,645 bytes +2‎ →‎The characters: minor word change
• curprev 22:5222:52, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,644 bytes +1‎ →‎The characters: added a space
• curprev 22:5122:51, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,643 bytes +859‎ →‎The characters: anent Dr. Munoz
• curprev 22:4522:45, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,537 bytes +65‎ →‎The characters: more tweaking
• curprev 22:4122:41, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,472 bytes +176‎ →‎The characters: rewriting and tweaking
• curprev 22:2922:29, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,322 bytes +26‎ added a couple of words
• curprev 22:2722:27, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,296 bytes −11‎ minor rewording
• curprev 22:0122:01, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,307 bytes +535‎ more rewriting of the first two paras
• curprev 21:5521:55, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 9,265 bytes +493‎ expanded the led para, breaking it into two, adding Heavy Thoughts; I suppose I'll be through with the Condon opus in, oh, say 30 years, at this rate
• curprev 21:2921:29, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,772 bytes −12‎ some rewriting to the last sentence in the lede para
• curprev 21:2721:27, 24 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,786 bytes +2‎ changed "is" to "was". Like Oscar: "I spent all morning putting in a comma; then all afternoon taking it out...."

16 January 2009

• curprev 07:4607:46, 16 January 2009‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ m 8,785 bytes +1‎ →‎Origins: she anglicised

14 January 2009

• curprev 23:3423:34, 14 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,784 bytes +1,122‎ →‎The story: minor edit
• curprev 23:3323:33, 14 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,782 bytes +7‎ →‎The story: minor rewording
• curprev 22:4122:41, 14 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,775 bytes +1,113‎ moved a paragaph from Character to Story
• curprev 22:3322:33, 14 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,649 bytes +413‎ →‎The story: added some more info, basically telling what the book is about; added a section heading for Characters; also a Publication heading

13 January 2009

• curprev 23:0023:00, 13 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,236 bytes 0‎ →‎The story
• curprev 22:5822:58, 13 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,236 bytes +574‎ →‎The story: added a word
• curprev 22:5722:57, 13 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,230 bytes +24‎ →‎The story: redid info about the paintings
• curprev 22:5422:54, 13 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,206 bytes +199‎ →‎The story: adding some info about the characters; well, let's try listing them; not New Yorker style, or Edmund Wilson, but maybe 21st cent. encyl.
• curprev 22:3022:30, 13 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 8,007 bytes +345‎ →‎The story: A cheerful addition, the last words of the book: "His ruined face stared. She screamed. She screamed again. She could not stop screaming."

12 January 2009

• curprev 20:5920:59, 12 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 7,662 bytes +688‎ →‎The story: a paragraph about the characters
• curprev 20:4520:45, 12 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 6,982 bytes +8‎ →‎The story: minor editing

11 January 2009

• curprev 22:0522:05, 11 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 6,974 bytes +5,995‎ some info about Bourne, the protagonist -- and thanks for the "shock and awe" emdash, O Rheaux -- I wuz truly stunned by such bold, even audacious edit!

10 January 2009

• curprev 16:1716:17, 10 January 2009‎ imported>Ro Thorpe‎ 6,044 bytes +1‎ Thorpe puts in em dash shock horror
• curprev 15:3915:39, 10 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 6,043 bytes +1,413‎ →‎The story: editing
• curprev 15:3615:36, 10 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 6,041 bytes +999‎ began working of the outlines of the story -- a very tedious business

9 January 2009

• curprev 14:4714:47, 9 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 5,042 bytes +183‎ added a header; more info later

8 January 2009

• curprev 21:4521:45, 8 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 5,012 bytes 0‎ moved an "a" around
• curprev 21:4421:44, 8 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 5,012 bytes +148‎ →‎Origins: some rewriting and additions
• curprev 21:3921:39, 8 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 4,864 bytes +5‎ changed a couple of words; does one "thumb one's nose at" or "nose to" or either?
• curprev 21:3621:36, 8 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 4,859 bytes +229‎ added a little pontificating
• curprev 21:3121:31, 8 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 4,630 bytes +134‎ corrected page in footnote
• curprev 21:2421:24, 8 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 4,635 bytes +14‎ made TOC
• curprev 21:2221:22, 8 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 4,621 bytes +125‎ put in correct footnotes
• curprev 21:1821:18, 8 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 4,496 bytes +3,517‎ origins -- will fix footnotes in a moment

6 January 2009

• curprev 18:2018:20, 6 January 2009‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 3,267 bytes +741‎ finally made a start on writing about the actual story itself -- better finish it before I forget what I read a month or so ago....

19 November 2008

• curprev 13:4113:41, 19 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 2,526 bytes +1,547‎ streamlined a bunch of footnotes by changing to Ibid.

18 November 2008

• curprev 16:5916:59, 18 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 2,777 bytes +1,798‎ added three or four footnotes
• curprev 16:5216:52, 18 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 2,350 bytes +645‎ added an example of the madcap lists he loved to create
• curprev 16:3916:39, 18 November 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 1,705 bytes +726‎ added three of his lunatic similies and metaphors

30 August 2008

• curprev 13:1713:17, 30 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ m 979 bytes 0‎ added two hyphens

25 August 2008

• curprev 15:3515:35, 25 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 979 bytes +817‎ movie info
• curprev 15:2715:27, 25 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 643 bytes +481‎ early movie interest, from NYT of 1958

24 August 2008

• curprev 18:0318:03, 24 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 162 bytes −1‎ changed by to of
• curprev 17:2717:27, 24 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 162 bytes −1‎ remove x
• curprev 17:2717:27, 24 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 163 bytes +1‎ add x
• curprev 17:1617:16, 24 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 162 bytes −1‎ removed an x
• curprev 17:1517:15, 24 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 163 bytes +1‎ added an x
• curprev 17:1317:13, 24 August 2008‎ imported>Hayford Peirce‎ 162 bytes +162‎ just a sentence to get the article started