But You Probably Do Need an Editor: The next time soulless bureaucrats and bosses bowdlerize your works of genius, think of Thomas Bowdler, the physician who did an even worse hatchet job on Shakespeare. Concerned that the bard was warping the morals of youth, he produced an 1818 "Family Shakespeare" in which he promised, "those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
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