Reasons I hate revisions, number 57

Published 04 January 08 02:56 PM
I had to delete 'evil Atlanteans had much more straightforward plans for world domination'.  And they did, goddammit. And I had the footnote to prove it.
by Karen.Hall
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# robyn.owens said on January 4, 2008 3:41 PM:

Now I wonder why? Maybe your claim of "evil" could not be backed up? "(M)uch more straightforward" than what? Domination of the whole planet, or maybe not so completely? Or was the claim simply not pertinent to the thesis? Explain.

# Karen.Hall said on January 5, 2008 2:22 PM:

Much as I'd love to claim that I was forced to remove the information under pressure from the ongoing Atlantean World Domination Conspiracy (TM), the phrase just got lost in a sentence restructure. The sentence is now 'Similarly, Harl Vincent’s ‘Tanks Under The Sea’ featured Atlanteans, in this case plotting world domination' - the emphasis needed to be on relating the Vincent story to others published around the same time instead of on evaluating villains. The reference is to Harl Vincent. 'Tanks Under the Sea'. Amazing Stories 5.10 (January 1931) 896-908

# robyn.owens said on January 5, 2008 3:47 PM:

I was thinking today how much a thesis is like a fine sculpture - all your research is the base piece of marble, but it is the bits that you chip away that make the final form so beautiful. Keep chipping.

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About Karen.Hall

I've recently submitted my PhD thesis, titled 'Discovering the Lost Race Story: Writing Science Fiction, Writing Temporality', for examination. In the meantime, I'm teaching in the discipline of Communication Studies at UWA and starting a new project on medievalism and media through a Whitfeld Fellowship.