You have to keep your eye on the job because words are very sly, the rubbishy ones go into hiding and you have to dig them out—repetition, synonyms, things that simply don’t mean anything.
[Isaak Babel]

“When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax.”

DO YOU REVERSE?

[with thanks to Amber Noel; O’Connor quote from Conversations with Flannery O’Connor, Rosemary M. Magee, p. 38]