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He really cut it, and he really pieced it together, you see, with these subject heads.

Interviewer:

Is this how it happened that you went into subject heads?

Perkins:

No, because I think parts of it he just left alone. Each chapter has a kind of a title. Well, some of those I had entitled and thought of them in a chapter. Some of them he carved out of a great long batch of material, enormous material. He carved it out and said, “Now, put this all together. This is about his religion.”

You know, all over the book I'd scattered things. “Well, we'll put enough about his religion into one chapter, so that people who read that will know what they're reading.”

He did a heroic job of editing. How long did it take him? Two and a half weeks. That was the time when I had five or six girls working upstairs there, typing. This place was just slave labor, you know. I mean, they'd come early and they'd stay late, and it was hot, it was getting on into May, it was a very hot May. He really did a beautiful job. I've never been grateful enough to him for it.

So then we delivered the manuscript to the publisher on the fifteenth of May. George, by the way, had said to me, “These deadlines don't mean anything, really, so you get it





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