Talk:Interview with Norton Cabal

Information about this edition
Edition:	Principia Discordia, 4th Edition (Loompanics)
Source:	http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/after4.html & physical copy (ISBN 1-55950-040-9)
Contributor(s):	Popefauvexxiii
Level of progress:	Looked over and formatted (underlining, footnotes, special characters), looks fine
Notes:	If anyone has a physical copy of this edition, please proofread
Proofreaders:	das-g

Formatting

Anybody have any formatting tips for prettying up interview format? --Popefauvexxiii 08:11, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

The version reproduced in the physical publication (ISBN 1-55950-040-9) is set in monospace (or, well, probably not set at all, but typed on a typewriter and reproduced photolitographically or similar) and on many lines of the prose preceding the actual "Interview" have additional spacing

• to indent the first line of each paragraph
• (after fullstops) probably for following American English typewriter punctuation spacing conventions
• (between words) to achieve full justification (left and right ends of the lines lining up).

Sample (reproduced best I can by just looking at the print):

    It  has  been  ten  years  since  I  met  the mysterious
Malaclypse  the  Younger.   I  was  free  lancing  for   the
underground  papers  and  went  by  POEE  Head Temple at 555
Battery Street to try for an interview.

    I  found  him  in the Temple PO Box busy wrapping up the
new Fourth Edition of Principia.  He seemed  impatient  with
me,  insisting  that  he didn't have the time or inclination
for foolish questions from reporters.   Undaunted,  I  burst
out  with  questions like whether he preferred Panama Red or
Acapulco Gold and how the fuck did we manage to  fit  inside
of  a  tiny post office box and other things apropos a naive
young semiliterate dropout hippy writer.  He asked me  if  I
wanted to drop mescaline and fuck all night and said he knew
how to turn himself into a unicorn and there might  be  room
for  a  tiny  interview  on  the cover of the Principia if I
wanted to work for the Greater Poop so I said sure, OK, I've
never dropped mescaline in a post office box before.

The interview itself also has additional spacing to

• have the beginning of most quotes (after "<name>:") line up
• indent subsequent lines of quotes

Sample (reproduced best I can by just looking at the print):

Malik:     [Anarchy] is also standing up and proceeding
    forward, fantasy rule or not.  The condition is the same.

Occupant:  Brother needs some wine!

Malik:     We have had this argument before, Reverend Doctor
    Brother.  But wine before platitudes, fill it up.

Gypsie [to Hill]:  And pacifism?

Hill:      I'm not sure I ever was one.  Mal² was not, Malik
    was.  Personally I accepted self defense yet I could
    never reconcile that with the ideal. I finally gave up
    on that one too. Actually I just gave up on idealism.

Ignotius:  Idealism lives with rules.  Realism lives with rocks.

Hill:      Yeah.  I get along better with rocks.

Malik:     Mal² once told me that pacifism was a dilemma.
    If everybody was a pacifist then everything would be
    perfect.  But nobody is going to be a pacifist unless I
    am first.  But if I am and somebody else is not, then I
    get screwed.  He said that there were five choices under
    that circumstance.  The first was napalming farmers and
    the second was executing your parents.  The third was
    hypocrisy, the fourth was cowardice, and the fifth was
    to swallow the dilemma.  Zenarchists are trained in
    dilemma swallowing.

Should the transcript here on Wikisource try to reproduce some or all of these formatting choices / aspects?

--Das-g (talk) 11:04, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Proofreading

I've proofread the text comparing with a physical copy of the Loompanics edition (ISBN 1-55950-040-9) and made some changes accordingly. However, I'm unsure whether I was able to spot all discrepancies, and thus whether I should change the "Level of progress" in be textinfo box above (which currently says "Looked over and formatted (underlining, footnotes, special characters), looks fine ") and remote the "Notes" entry (which currently says "If anyone has a physical copy of this edition, please proofread").

I've added ISBN 1-55950-040-9 to the "Source" field and myself in the "Proofreaders" field of the box. Am I doing this correctly? (I'm new to editing Wikisource.)

--Das-g (talk) 10:04, 21 May 2022 (UTC)