One year I was one of the editors of my high school lit mag and had to mediate an argument between a teacher who wanted to change "Noone" to "No one" and a friend who insisted that "Noone" was used as a name for the character just as "Nowhere" was the name of the place where he lived and that to change it to "No one" would completely destroy the meaning of the poem.
In the end we let her leave it, though I'm certain that she had no idea that "noone" was incorrect when she wrote the poem.
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Re: Drives Me Crazy
Date: 2005-05-24 07:23 pm (UTC)In the end we let her leave it, though I'm certain that she had no idea that "noone" was incorrect when she wrote the poem.