Monteverdi went to the trouble and expense of preparing a new manuscript with revisions; had he had more time, he informed Striggio, he would have revised the work more thoroughly.
But he now says that had he seen the New York study, "I would have revised that estimate downward".
I'd love to know whether Rylan would have revised his opinion of fame had the witch-hunt kept going, but instead a "turning point" intervened.
Mr. Bloomberg's proposal would have revised the city charter to eliminate party primaries in favor of a two-stage, nonpartisan system.
An unsuccessful bill proposed by Gov. George E. Pataki in 2000 would have revised the law to allow crime victims to sue convicts for money and property from any source.
Others may wonder whether the author, a renowned perfectionist, would have revised the text had he lived, and even whether, in its unfinished state, "The Pale King" should have been published at all.
If writing is Thing, then censorship is No-Thing, and, as King Lear told Cordelia, "Nothing will came of nothing," or, as Mr. Jennings would have revised Shakespeare, "No-Thing will come of No-Thing.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg used his veto power for the first time yesterday on a measure that would have revised term limits and given eight City Council members an extra two years in office.
However, he commented that he would have revised the essay carefully if he were writing for assignments or tests5 in real-life.
Jean Paul Sartre, who was a prisoner during the war, may have famously said "Hell is other people," but he'd clearly never hung out with Nazi reenactors in sub-freezing ranchland, otherwise I'm certain he would have revised it to read, "Hell is Nazi reenacting".
