Whitty: wwh wrote, "The one exception I can think of was James A. Michener, who was an editor with Saturday Evening Post before he wrote Tales of the South Pacific (emphasis, mine)." Hawaii followed the tales, so Michener hadn't begun writing his 800+ page tomes. It would be interesting, however, to know whether any Michener redactophobes did, in fact, quake if Michener wrote, "Expand!" His own expansions were volcanic.

Now an editing question. Did I correctly parenthetically use "(emphasis, mine)"?

WW