2011 - Second semestre

Editorial

Nobody, except he has tried it, knows what it is to be an editor. It is easy to scribble local ribbish, with the facts all before you, it is easy to clip selections from other papers, it is easy to tring out a correspondence from any locality; but it is unspeakable hardship to write editorials. Subjects are the trouble - the dreary lack of them, I mean. Every day, it is drag, drag, drag - think, and worry and suffer - allthe world is a dull blank, and yet the editorial columns must be filled. Only give the editor a subject, and his work is done - it is no trouble to write it up ...

Mark Twain "Roughing it"