"Where do editors come from? I don't know. You might as well ask me where the sparrows go to when they die. I have known about 355 editors intimately, and I never met the father or mother of any one of them, and certainly never heard the grandfather of any one of them so much as referred to. I think they come out of the ground in some slum when there is a hard shower after a long spell of dry weather." — from an unsigned item in the Musical Courier magazine, June 30, 1921. The magazine credits The Triad, an Australian publication, as the original source.
Next time, the same writer imagines where editors go after death and what awaits them there. Hint: It isn't pleasant.
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