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"I gave Constance Abernethy a job that has really been a very difficult kind of a job. I knew she knew me so well, my philosophy, and was so astute in managing and organizing things. … And incidentally at this time I was being beset with requests for writing. And I hoped that she might be able to make transcriptions of my talks-- which usually take about seven rewritings; and I thought she might be able to put them together in articles.
“It turned out she couldn’t do that. But I said, Constance, I’d like you to take everything I’ve ever written and have any number of xeroxes you need of anything and take it apart in actual idea increments. Maybe there’s a paragraph-- maybe three paragraphs long-- and begin to collate those ideas. Time and again I’ve found myself having to talk about those same ideas, but they actually get progressively treated and they get a little better. So if we had a file where you kept cutting things out and were able some way to identify that idea and were able to catalog it so you finally have seven statements of the same idea and pick out the best one or going over them find out what I’ve left out in several.”
