When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.