well, rewrite n+1 of rejected paper #4 has been done.

y more rewrites (where 1 < y < 1500) to come.

Got the November "Country Living" last night. Like so many of the "mass market" women's/decorating magazines, it it trumpeting the triumphant return of knitting, with a 4 page article (there is later article about Kristin Nicholas' sheep-farm. It makes me just a bit sad to think that no magazine ever features the busy, sad, little chalk-stained lives of college professors, but then being a prof has a low glamour quotient).

As is typical for the magazines, most of the article focused on knit or pseudo-knit items you could buy, rather than what you could make. And the scarf at the start of the magazine article sure looked crocheted to me. Crafts for the consumerist mentality, I guess. (not that I don't regard myself as part of the consumerist mentality, as anyone who reads my blog would be quick to point out). I don't know, I suppose doing a four-page-general-readership-magazine-spread on the return of knitting is kind of like trying to sum up population ecology, or medieval history, or gene regulation, or quantum physics, or what have you, in a ten-page chapter in a textbook. The people who are really into the topic are naturally going to be disappointed and are going to complain that the wrong focus was taken, or information is out of context, or there are gross oversimplifications.