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Jeffrey J. Williams' post on editing appeared just as I was hunkering down to a) start checking over the Anne Boleyn proofs and b) finish the requested revisions to the anti-Catholic sermons.  I winced a trifle--just a wee trifle, mind you--when Williams denounced "'Glossomania,' or excessive citation."  Thanks to fair use regulations and all, glossomania did not rear its ugly head with the Anne Boleyn article, but I fear that there are many, many quotations in the sermons chapter, some of which really need to go the way of all footnotes.  (All ninety-one of the footnotes.)   But part of the problem lies with the kind of material I work on, which, as a general rule, is completely unfamiliar to nine-tenths of the academic reading population.  Making a general observation about mid-Victorian objections to post-Tridentine Catholic theology is not quite like making a general observation about Dickens' metaphors.