Re: couple of questions
Subject: Re: couple of questions
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 3/17/10, 17:22
To: Rachel Trusheim <rachel@sterlingandross.com>, "Sterling & Ross Publishers" <drew@sterlingandross.com>

Yo guys-

Just got back from the meeting with New York Observer editor; they want me to do a bunch of attack pieces on various pundits, as well as critics like Michael Wolff. I'll be able to have the book mentioned in the footer bio, I believe, and perhaps mention it in the text of some of the articles. I'll try to get the first piece in within a couple of weeks.

Can you guys please let me know when you think the book might come out so I'll be able to provide that information to various people and include it in footers and whatnot?

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Lol, Alan Thicke. 

I'm open to whatever you think is best with that phrase; perhaps we could riff of "moral clarity" by using "morally clarifying metaphor"?


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Rachel Trusheim <rachel@sterlingandross.com> wrote:
Thanks for clearing that up... would even "a bottom-of-the-paragaph" work? We use "moral clarity" in the sentence, so I am hesitant to say replace with "clarifying metaphor." What do you think?

Drew is out of the office (he's at the TODAY SHOW with Alan Thicke) and unavailable today. But I'll try twisting his arm to meet up with you soon. :)

Rachel Trusheim
Executive Editor
212.244.2084 ext. 111

Sterling & Ross Publishers    | 115 W 29 ST. FL 3   | New York, NY 10001   |   www.sterlingandross.com

On Mar 17, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:

Howdy, Rach-

It's a metaphor that appears down the paragraph, akin to downwind or downriver. If readers might find it confusing, just replace with "a clarifying metaphor."

Is Drew around today? I'm meeting with the deputy editor of The New York Observer at their office in Midtown at 3 and wanted to see if it might be possible for me to pick up that check.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Rachel Trusheim <rachel@sterlingandross.com> wrote:
Hey BB,

During proofing this came up: What's a down-paragraph metaphor? It is an error or missing a word, perhaps? Thanks!

Okay, so Bennett doesn’t seem to know what the term “magic bullet” means. That’s understandable; I myself used to have trouble with the term “ruled out.” When it was said that police have ruled out the possibility of foul play, I wasn’t sure if that meant that the police had spread the possibility out on the table to get a better look at it, or rather that they’d thrown it out so that it wasn’t really something they were still considering as a possibility. But that was when I was, like, 12.
Luckily, Bennett does a slightly better job of explaining the “moral clarity” of his position in a down-paragraph metaphor. “Of course we want to teach children not to play with matches. But if a house is burning, we’ve got to put out the fire—and we’ve got to grab matches out of some hands before they start any more fires.” Actually, this is a terrible metaphor, unless, of course, he meant to add, “and then we’ve got to throw the little bastards out on the street.” He is, after all, talking about a mandatory expulsion policy, not a “taking drugs out of some hands before they use any more drugs” policy, which is what the schools have always had.

Rachel Trusheim
Executive Editor
212.244.2084 ext. 111

Sterling & Ross Publishers    | 115 W 29 ST. FL 3   | New York, NY 10001   |   www.sterlingandross.com