Beauties of my style
Smithsonian Magazine on a new exhibition at Yale University celebrating five centuries of typos. Begins with an anecdote about James Joyce's Ulysses, first editions of which were full of typos on account of the Irishman's bad handwriting:
The following year, Joyce’s editors compiled a massive list of the book’s errors to be fixed in new editions. Joyce rejected some of the corrections, saying, “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.” Even so, some future printings of the book came with a seven-page errata sheet listing more than 200 mistakes.
Planning to steal "These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of" the next time I have to correct an article.