As long as the original, unedited image -- the electronic negative, so to speak -- is stored on a compact disk, he said, "you can always reprint anytime you want, and you can print on something better two years down the road".
The email is reprinted below, you should read it in it's entirety.
We enjoyed the story a lot so here it is, along with a companion tale, reprinted for you, with love, from us.
Unburnable fuel The art of the spin-off Reprints"You can't make a living, but you can make a killing," goes the Broadway adage.
Reprints"You have a seismic shift in the SBC," says Wade Burleson, an Oklahoma pastor whose "Grace and Truth to You" blog is a rallying point for the neo-Calvinists.
Mohsin Hamid's third novel has a similarly unambiguous title: "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia .In this section Out of adversity Writing to survive The sense of no ending You and yours In search of the ungodly Stars and stripes ReprintsYou, an unnamed protagonist, are born in a village a few hours away from a growing metropolis, which also remains nameless.
You reprinted only a single, rambling e-mail message, complete with invective, misspellings and hyperbolic imagery.
That Oxford has reprinted it tells you something about the considerable charm and quality of its prose (which are separate from its inherent value as an historical document).
If the answers to an exam are scribbled on a piece of ribbon tucked into the brim of your hat, or carefully written in the nutritional information section of a duplicate Gatorade label that you painstakingly reprinted and glued onto an old Gatorade bottle, and you never get caught, is that really so wrong?
When Betty Blabbermouth asks why, just tell her you want to get it right when you reprint her sexploits on your blog.
