Unprintworthy

The risks taken by the purchasers, who might have found themselves with an unprintworthy loser about a loser, were minimal since their guarantees were low; but by prearrangement, further payments were called for when Reagan emerged the winner.

Jenna’s always so smart, Becka wrote, her pen tangling itself on the unprintworthy “smarter than me.”

As we were led past all that machinery, it felt as if we had returned to the nineteenth century, when ideas, to become strong, had to become physical, to knock down trees, be quantified in reams and sextodecimos and print runs; a place where the Internet didn’t exist and blogs—proliferating, immeasurable ideas—were dismissed as the unprintworthy’s delusions of grandeur.