You know what it’s like to come back to a hotel room in the afternoon and find that housekeeping has been there and everything is all fresh and put to rights? That’s how a copy editor would like you to feel when you see the editing. If you can view extra-thorough editing as the mint on the pillow, all the better. What we don’t want is for you to feel offended that we saw the need for cleaning.

           Carol Fisher Saller, The Subversive Copyeditor