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Forthcoming glossary of urban spaces by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, founder of Holes of Matter (x), via Harvard GSD lecture, “Things as Holes” (x).

Creating style sheets is the secret to catching small errors. I am obsessed with my style sheets. I keep a word list, a character list, a list of places (fictional and real), a chronology, a general style sheet, a list of hyphenated modifiers, and any other list that helps me keep track of everything. I usually fact check as I go, although when I’m pressed for time I make a list of items to look up later, sometimes after I’ve returned the manuscript to the publisher. In those cases, I send a list of corrections that can be added by the production editor to the first pass. (Ha-ha, if someone else wrote this paragraph, I’d query the repeat of “list” — I used it seven times in five sentences.)

Detail of illuminated "A" for Bible of Sweetheart Abbey, 1260-1270. Judith: slaying Holofernes -- In tent, Judith, wearing berbette, with sword in right hand cuts off crowned head of Holofernes reclining asleep on draped mattress.

"Beheading of John the Baptist." Detail fromThe Gospel of Mark as a Picture Gallery, Johann Ulrich Kraus (1655-1719), 1705.