Editor's Note: On The Road To Find Out

The image made me smile. What a good idea, I thought: an emergency service for times when one needs an edit, or has, perhaps, grammatical leakage, or poorly structured sentences, or paragraphs that don't flow smoothly. A service to call when in need of a good idea. One would telephone and the van would come racing up the driveway, large red letters promising editorial rescue—a sort of Red Cross of letters.