Most Honorable Sir, We perused your MS with boundless delight. And we hurry to swear by our ancestors we have never read any other that equals its mastery. Were we to publish your work, we could never presume again on our public and name to print books of a standard not up to yours, for we cannot imagine that the next ten thousand years will offer its ectype.* We must therefore refuse your work that shines as it were in the sky and beg you a thousand times to pardon our fault, which impairs but our own offices." Rejection letter from a Chinese publisher. Quoted from The First Five Pages, by Noah Lukeman. ----------------* *Does everyone know what ectype means? I had to look it up: "A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed."