TheTedNelson: Real cut and paste-- STILL NEEDED BY WRITERS !
The terms "cut" and "paste" were redefined in 1984,
when the Macintosh came out--
"cut" now meant "hide" and "paste" meant plug in--
and as a result, there are no decent tools
for large-scale rearrangement.
Tolstoy cut his manuscripts into pieces
that he called his "noodles"-- then he would
rearrange them and paste them into a new order,
adding text and crossing out, then dictating
a new draft to his daughters,
one to be cut up again. (My grandmother
heard this in a lecture by one of his daughters.)
Balzac wore a knife around his neck
for cutting up his manuscripts--
but such rearrangement is impossible
with today's computer software.
Personally, in the 1960s I had huge paper cut at the factory
for massive rearrangement by REAL cut and paste--
of big manuscripts. Still have them.
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