I am reminded of Eudora Welty...

[pondhop]

as I read this paragraph from an inventory of Mary Roberts Rinehart's papers:

Notable items in the series include a long pair of scissors and a small jar of straight pins. A note with the scissors indicates that Mary Roberts Rinehart often edited her manuscripts by cutting up pages and pinning sections of text together in a different order. Evidence of this practice can be seen in some manuscripts in the Manuscripts and Notes series.

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