I still held the revises; kept them until the type was made up and went to the press, for final page proof.

In EARTHBOUND we have the exact same story. There is nothing wrong with Simmonds per se, but, just like Captain Kirk in THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER [a Star Trek episode], he has become Captain Dunsail in the sense of no longer having any function. He is suffering from the same state of lacked recognition that Gwent talks about.

All month he scrimped and saved until he raised the money.

I don't want my runner stopping off to decrumb a table or empty an ashtray.