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Yes, great fun stuff.
I thought it might have been just me, but found this quote (apparently) from Oscar Wilde: "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
I'm sure if I studied the drafts of my novels I would find many such iterations, where on one reading a comma seems like a good idea and on another it seems out of place. In some cases I think I might have gone back and forth several times. ... There are some days when I grow to really dislike the humble comma.
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