‘But do you remember it?’
Alvaro Azcarraga/Staff
“OK but hear me out: I get that we’re copy editors and all, but why do we have to be like that when we see anything spelled incorrectly?”
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Sitting down and being humble: Reflecting on the scope of art via Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the Staples Center isn’t so much of a culmination for me as it is a milestone.
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Only the grammar
“You get to the point, eventually, that you see only the grammar.”
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Changing track
What follows is a telling (no, retelling) / Of error forced by ego (built by spelling, / Grammar, diction, and nice punctuation) / Of premature relief and exaltation / Of man — of boy — of child — of wond’rous pain / An Intern who made edits all in vain.
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Crumpled paper
I stare at the page, increasingly aware of the mounting pressure. Furtively glancing side to side, I attempt to logically deduce a solution, anxiously scouring my memories for a precedent.
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A copy editor’s field journal
Of course, I don’t tell him that copy editing just feels intrinsically satisfying. I don’t tell him that it allows me some miniscule amount of order and linear progression as I come to terms with the notion that I, as a freshman, can only pretend to have plans for my own future.
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Too much sauce
The more involved I get in copy editing, the more absorbed I get in the actual rules of real grammar. When I write weird dialogue or add that extra hyphen, I end up throwing myself off more than the reader.
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