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Speaking both as a man working in the literary and rhetorical tradition and as one of the few working writers currently named E. B. White, I feel I must make two essential notes about this particular xkcd.

First off, the book is The Elements of Style. Calling it “Strunk and White” is a colloquialism, but surely the editors would make that note. If not, they certainly would not recommend the use of an ampersand between the authors’ names. “Strunk and White” would be the proper usage.

Secondly, and probably more importantly, it should be remembered by prospective slashficcers that William Strunk, jr. knew Elwyn Brooks White when the former was a professor and the latter a student at Cornell University in the late teens and early twenties of the last century. (Note they did not work on the style guide together at that time. Strunk wrote it as a style guide for his classes. Much later, White would be commissioned to revise it after Strunk’s death. They never collaborated directly on The Elements of Style.) So, if you’re going to write erotic fan-fiction about the pair, it should have that whiff of scandal that comes from a professor and his star pupil finding passion on the shores of Lake Cayuga in a Northeastern Spring, when to be caught would mean imprisonment for the professor and the death of the student’s prospective career. Too many writers would make them peers and that would be all wrong. The inequity of their power dynamic is your hook, you see.

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