Ну вот как это, а.
"...while foreign houses scrambled to buy translation rights, DeWitt was battling her copy editor, who had ignored DeWitt’s edits and imposed hundreds of standardizing changes of her own. It was, DeWitt told the Observer in 2011, as if they were trying to "kill the mind that wrote the book"."
(Хелен деВитт, автору "Последнего Седьмого самурая", тоже пришлось биться с тупым редактором – включая и насильно измененное название!; откуда вообще это самоуверенное племя взялось, самозародилось в грязном белье?)
"...while foreign houses scrambled to buy translation rights, DeWitt was battling her copy editor, who had ignored DeWitt’s edits and imposed hundreds of standardizing changes of her own. It was, DeWitt told the Observer in 2011, as if they were trying to "kill the mind that wrote the book"."
(Хелен деВитт, автору "