Was going to do the deep read on the first 150 pages today, but realized I would get nowhere mentally without first going through the manuscript and comparing, page by page, the Second Pass with all those marked-in corrections on the First Pass, along with the master list of inserts (55 pages, or one per page) that I submitted to Mark along with all my small fixes. So I spent about seven hours doing that with great care, firing off a bunch of questions to Putnam.

Of the 55 inserts, about 40 got in okay. I now have a smaller file of 10 inserts that consist of seven already submitted (Lexington Green fixes), two that were previously submitted and that I now want to retract (purely my mistakes), and one new one (a Marx citation that was screwed up in the endnotes). So, as far as Putnam is concerned, I've generated only one new insert, that being in the second-to-last endnote.

I marked small corrections in 79 pages, and I would say that Putnam already has the bulk of them in hand (just not inputted in this copy), so that's pretty good.

I anticipate two small inserts in the Preface and probably only one in the glossary, plus whatever I find and/or can't live with in the deep read.

When all is said and done, I can imagine much more than 100-125 mark-ups, but even with that number, you can imagine how much I want to scan the final version one last time before saying goodbye forever.

Anyway, pumpkins to carve...

What I plan next?

The deep read over the next three days.