_:vb6979732 . _:vb6979733 . _:vb6979731 . _:vb6979732 "Later I was entrusted with writing the letters to the editor, because nobody else ever wrote to our paper. The editor, Eric Lewis, had a slash and burn style of editing that left its mark on me forever. Most of my stories ended up on the spike."@en . _:vb6979730 "A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent."@en . _:vb6979731 "1974, Books and Bookmen:"@en . . _:vb6979731 "It was all true, it appeared. He sat down and wrote it, the editor read it and said: ' We don't use stories like this in this newspaper.' So the story ended up on the spike, reinforcing the principle that wife-swapping, unlike justice, must not be seen to be done."@en . _:vb6979733 "Assuming that word of the death reached the Times's newsroom at all, it would have taken little more than one bleary-eyed night editor who had heard neither of Ventris nor of linear B for the obituary to have been consigned to the spike."@en . _:vb6979730 . "10" . _:vb6979732 "2005, David Bouchier, Writer at Work: Reflections on the Art and Business of Writing, iUniverse, \u2192ISBN:"@en . . _:vb6979733 "2013, Margalit Fox, Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation, Profile Books, \u2192ISBN:"@en .