Christopher Patrick Pursel

Regarding Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years.

Please be advised that the following autobiographical submission labeled Unpublished Original Text was composed by Christopher Patrick Pursel for the publication entitled Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years. Pursel recalls that the publisher of that work sought his contribution to this project via correspondence sent in . Note that Pursel composed his contribution in the style of an academic vita, or life.

After the Unpublished Original Text was submitted by Pursel, the publisher of Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years sent him the version of his composition labeled Unpublished Bastardized Text, which this publisher had altered in the manner of its own choosing, thus introducing many errors, and effectively replacing Pursel's written style with simple, declarative sentences, almost in the manner of a written admission, profession, or confession.

Thereabout , which was when the publisher sent him the Unpublished Bastardized Text, Pursel was invited to edit the Unpublished Bastardized Text, with an understanding from the publisher's latest correspondence that his changes to the same would be the final editorial revision to his autobiographical submission prior to its inclusion in the publisher's finished product, Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years. Pursel's revision to the Unpublished Bastardized Text is below as Unpublished Revised Text. Note that Pursel charitably adopted the style of the Unpublished Bastardized Text in the Unpublished Revised Text, believing it to be the style preferred by the publisher, but that he sought to correct the proofreading errors introduced by the publisher in the Revised Text.

Thereabout , the publisher contacted the purchasers of Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years, who were comprised of the alumni whose contributions produced this work, to indicate that distribution of the printed volume would be subject to delay by a paper shortage. After contacting the publisher over the ensuing months, Pursel learned that shipments of the printed volume were set to commence on , and he finally took possession of it in . To his great dismay, Pursel noted, upon locating his entry in the delivered volume, that it did not faithfully represent the Unpublished Revised Text, but instead reintroduced the proofreading errors in capitalization and style which were present in the Unpublished Bastardized Text. Unfortunately, and despite Pursel's efforts to correct the editor's errors in the Unpublished Bastardized Text, his contribution on the page of the printed volume contained not only these errors, but also a glaring error in sentence structure which, in his analysis, can be attributed to an attempt at parallelism on the part of an overzealous and obstinate editor. This editor, by interfering with Pursel's written text, not only reintroduced the capitalization errors identifiable by Microsoft Word from the Unpublished Bastardized Text, but actually ruined the opening sentence which was composed by Pursel for the autobiographical record of his own life; and this errored record, which may be perceived as a writing sample indicative of Pursel's skills, is now and forevermore memorialized in the published Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years. This situation could give rise to the mistaken conclusion that Pursel himself, and not the editor of Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years, lacks command of the English language. Of course, these facts together represent an inversion of the editor's traditional responsibilities, for Pursel, by the presentation of these facts, has shown that the editor of his contribution to Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years detracted from the language of this contribution, and from the totality of its impact, rather than improving the former and latter points. The editor's rendition of the Unpublished Revised Text from the distributed volume appears below as the Published Bastardized Text.

Due to the persistence of the editor in reintroducing errors in capitalization, and in botching the first sentence for reasons that may only be subject to speculation, Pursel contacted the publisher and tendered a complaint. Because the volume had already been published, and no second edition is likely to ever be distributed, the publisher responded to his complaint by authorizing a full refund of the purchase price, sales tax, and shipping cost which Pursel had previously paid the publisher for his copy of Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years. If the publisher should ever contemplate legal action against Pursel for the contents of this webpage, whether on grounds of alleged copyright infringement or libel, Pursel contends that the publisher's refund of the money he expended to purchase the volume is good proof that this publisher itself acknowledged wrongdoing in its handling of Pursel's contribution to Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years, and furthermore contends that the contents of this explanatory webpage, which includes the Published Bastardized Text, were directly and exclusively made necessary by the publisher's errors in the same Published Bastardized Text, which constitute the aforesaid wrongdoing. By publishing this webpage's contents, Pursel rebuts the errors of the editor responsible for the Published Bastardized Text, the entry associated with his name and identity in Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years, and he rebuts these errors both individually and in toto, thus protecting his reputation as a proficient author. Accordingly, the below revision, labeled Published Revised Text, corrects the editor's errors in the Published Bastardized Text.

Pursel immediately contacted the publisher upon noting the errors of the Published Bastardized Text, and as stated, he received a full refund of the price he paid for his copy of Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years. Because he abhors the idea that anyone, now or in the future, could lay hands on a copy of Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years and reasonably conclude that the years of his life spent earning degrees related to written communication were wasted, or that these degrees ought not to have been conferred upon him, he has published this record of the facts surrounding his autobiographical entry in the publication Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years. It is his hope that this record will remedy any misapprehensions which may arise from the decision by the editor or editors of Geneseo Storytellers: A Celebration of 150 Years to disregard the conventions of the English language in editing Pursel's work.

Pursel last updated this page as of May 20, 2023.