Before eXtasy publishes a book, it gets edited by one person
and proofread by another. I missed it, the editor didn't point it out, but the
proofreader noticed I had used shear
when I meant sheer. The sentence was,
I look past the ebony desk and the Zuzunaga couch, to the wide view of Central
Park and the towers of Manhattan turned golden by the gold-flecked shears on my
floor-to-ceiling windows. Since
shears is another word for scissors, the image I unintentionally
created was of a big pair of scissors hanging over a window. Don't get too
close to the glass, or they might swing shut and snip off your whatever.
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