Re: Rejection Slips

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From: Ad absurdum per aspera
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:08

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I once got a rejection letter (from Mother Jones) addressed to Professor
Joseph Chew, New Mexico Military Institute, Socorro, NM.  New Mexico
Tech (in Socorro, NM) sent it to NMMI (Roswell, NM), which stamped 
it no-such-animal and sent it back to Socorro.   By this time the envelope
had more rubber-stampings on it than a hashish smuggler's  passport, 
so Tech did a little detective work and finally sent it to *student* Joseph

Chew.  Who found therein a polite and helpful (if sporadically misspelled) 
explanation of why they didn't want the article.  

Joe
"The pallid pimp of the dead-line/The enervate of the pen" --Robert Service

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