Grendel’s Kitchen

… a friend of mine who was an editor for a major university press once told me that they had to recall the entire run of a prominent astronomy book because, mysteriously, every instance of the word “quasar” in the text had been replaced by the word “banana.” 

~ clipped from a post by Kieran Healy on Crooked TimberWhat? It just struck me as funny … It’s not like something like this could have ever happened at a prominent management consulting firm, right?Joel, given our conversation about Wittgenstein and innate grammar, we need to get our hands on this: Words and Things.