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What else happened?

The best treatment of this historical topic in print is Dawn Raffel's The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: https://www.dawnraffel.com/drcouney

Dr. Couney also features in Raffel's fictional Boundless as the Sky: https://www.dawnraffel.com/boundlessasthesky

I've never been persuaded by Rosen's account of that repeat. Most accomplished pianists are plenty bright and have read their Rosen, but don't necessarily agree with everything he has to say. (His preference for the early Schumann editions, for instance.)

I've formatted ~100 non-scientific books with LaTeX, including poetry and experimental/avant-garde fiction that makes considerable layout demands. I have yet to run into a problem that could not be solved. It isn't always the best tool for the job — for layouts with lots of images that need to be precisely placed with text, something like Affinity Publisher or InDesign would be a shorter path to the right result — but it's an amazing and remarkably painless system. If you are producing "incredibly inelegant bloat code" with it, I'd hazard that something other than LaTeX itself is responsible.

It is indeed in The Tao Is Silent — Raymond's first popular book and one of his best. There's a recent reading of the dialogue on YouTube by Curt Jaimungal, on the "Theory of Everything" channel: https://youtu.be/P-jh6tRh3Jw

Especially since it would truly be an "RSS" feed.

There exist at least these two books made of rejection letters:

https://www.barrelhousemag.com/shopone/thanks-and-sorry-and-...

and this one, in which the book is constituted by letters rejecting the book itself:

http://www.beardofbees.com/pubs/The_More_You_Reject_Me_the_B...