But slowly, revision came to feel more and more like composition, and the manuscript came to resemble the notebooks in which I wrote the first draft of the novel. As I worked through each page I laid it face down, using the overleaf for rewrites, adding scraps and post-its as necessary. I wasn’t sure I could make it better, and as we inched our way forward I felt I was losing my ability to make my own judgments, or my ability to see the manuscript at all. Painfully often, in the margins I found the notation “not good enough,” or “this needs to be better.” Mitzi seldom suggested particular language to fix problems, but she was eagle-eyed in spotting them. Sometimes entire passages were struck, sometimes whole pages often there would be a note telling me to condense several paragraphs to one. All of the changes were at line level, none affected plot or structure, but they added up to a major edit: we cut 17,000 words from an 83,000-word manuscript. I worked by hand on a clean copy of the manuscript, with Mitzi’s marked copy on my iPad.
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Its borders are finite but elastic and permeable. The imagined community is limited because regardless of size it is never taken to be co-extensive with humanity itself-not even extreme ideologies such as Nazism, with its pretensions to world dominance, imagine this in fact, as Giorgio Agamben has argued such ideologies tend to be premised on a generalization of an exception. But as Anderson is careful to point out (contra Ernest Gellner) imagined is not the same thing as false or fictionalized, it is rather the unselfconscious exercise of abstract thought. It is imagined because the actuality of even the smallest nation exceeds what it is possible for a single person to know-one cannot know every person in a nation, just as one cannot know every aspect of its economy, geography, history, and so forth. In Imagined Communities (1983) Anderson argues that the nation is an imagined political community that is inherently limited in scope and sovereign in nature. 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