Script Tease - Eric Nicol

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       SCRIPT TEASE

      SCRIPT TEASE

       A WORDSMITH’S WAXINGS ON LIFE AND WRITING

      ERIC NICOL

      Illustrations by Dave More

      DUNDURN PRESS

       TORONTO

      Copyright © Eric Nicol, 2010

       Illustrations copyright © Dave More, 2010

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

      Project Editor: Michael Carroll

       Copy Editor: Nicole Chaplin

       Design: Courtney Horner

       Printer: Webcom

       Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Nicol, Eric, 1919-

       Script tease : a wordsmith’s waxings on life

       and writing / by Eric Nicol.

      ISBN 978-1-55488-707-1

      1. Nicol, Eric, 1919- --Humour.

      2. Writing--Humour. I. Title.

      PS8527.I35S37 2010 C818’.5402 C2009-907467-2

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      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions. J. Kirk Howard, President

      Printed and bound in Canada.

      Printed on recycled paper.

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       To my wife, Mary Razzell, my compassionate editor

      CONTENTS

       Writers’ Unions

       Care and Feeding of Librarians

       Book Promotion

       Remuneration

       New Relationships

       The Fun Factor

       A WORDSMITH’S WAXINGS

       A Class Act

       A Clear-Cut Case

       A Moment of Majesty

       A Nocturnal Emission

       A Pickle at the Pump

       A Sampler of Evil Spirits

       A Sticky Wicket

       About Your Sox Life

       Analysis of Knee Transposition

       Anatomy of the Medical Clinic

       Andy Is Handy

       Antique

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