WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?

if things lately were not going bad enough
harddrive failures and computer problems
having trouble detailing my argument
cars breaking down on me

This was not what I needed.

Dear Wilbur,
It took longer than we expected, but the L&L editorial team has now
reviewed your paper on “The Yachts”. Unfortunately, the consensus is
that your article cannot be published at this time.

The most general comment was that the editors were not quite convinced
by your discussion of an ‘everyday reader’ stance versus ‘expert’
interpretation. The ideas you proposed there seemed too general and
speculative to be well received by the journal’s audience, at least in
their present form. Secondly, your use of the blending framework seemed
not convincing enough. The way you employed it did not support your
theoretical claims to the extent it should, and, in fact, did not seem
to add much clarity or originality to the interpretation of the poem
itself. Thirdly, in your application of the framework you did not
distinguish clearly between the language expressions as space builders,
and the structure of the spaces themselves. As a result, the diagrams
were not helpful to the reader, while the text itself was not quite
clear without them.

The paper would require rather extensive re-writing, if it were to be
considered for publication again. Since our schedule for the special
issue is very tight, it is not possible to give you the time that kind
of re-writing would require. Still, I want to thank you for submitting
the paper to the special issue. The time constraints were tough from
the beginning and your cooperation throughout the first stages was much
appreciated. Also, a special thank you for your paper at the PALA
conference, which was very interesting and promising. I hope that you
will continue working on blending in the future.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the
details of the reviewing process.

With very best wishes,

I dont want to think about this right now, back to the computer problems.

wilbur