You are a torment. A most pleasant torment, to be sure, but a torment indeed. I will eagerly accept your offer, with utmost thanks. If the remainder of his commentary is of the same calibre, which I am certain it is -- once I am more settled in my role here at Hogwarts, would you care to collaborate on a project to bring his work to wider audience? As a bit of a perfectionist myself I can certainly relate to his reasons for not publishing during his lifetime, but it would be a very great pity not to give him his chance for the glory his mind well deserves, even posthumously.
At very least I would be delighted for the chance to investigate the possibility of duplication -- over the years, I've found a few tricks that can often be deployed to coax certain texts into permitting some liberties, and notes and manuscripts-in-progress in particular can often be courted into allowing reproduction without needing to go to the elaborate lengths a wizarding press must to allow the printing of whole texts without disaster. (About which I have some funny stories.)
I shall let you know the next time I'm to be in town, then, and anticipate many pleasant hours of learning all you are willing to share of your specialities.
Fondly, and doing my utmost to control the accompanying outstretched hands of polite but covetous glee, Antosha
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Re: Private Message to Dominic Selwyn
Date: 2012-09-06 12:23 pm (UTC)You are a torment. A most pleasant torment, to be sure, but a torment indeed. I will eagerly accept your offer, with utmost thanks. If the remainder of his commentary is of the same calibre, which I am certain it is -- once I am more settled in my role here at Hogwarts, would you care to collaborate on a project to bring his work to wider audience? As a bit of a perfectionist myself I can certainly relate to his reasons for not publishing during his lifetime, but it would be a very great pity not to give him his chance for the glory his mind well deserves, even posthumously.
At very least I would be delighted for the chance to investigate the possibility of duplication -- over the years, I've found a few tricks that can often be deployed to coax certain texts into permitting some liberties, and notes and manuscripts-in-progress in particular can often be courted into allowing reproduction without needing to go to the elaborate lengths a wizarding press must to allow the printing of whole texts without disaster. (About which I have some funny stories.)
I shall let you know the next time I'm to be in town, then, and anticipate many pleasant hours of learning all you are willing to share of your specialities.
Fondly, and doing my utmost to control the accompanying outstretched hands of polite but covetous glee,
Antosha