These "authors" and "editors," creatures of Scott's invention, share with him the anxieties of labour and production, the need to keep up an impossible pace of writing to ensure their support in an age of inflation (after Napoleon and before Reform, a time of crop failures and government poverty.) At the same time, they share with other laborers, real and invented, the opposing fear of mass production, de-skilling, and declining working conditions in the face of #machines. #GenAI 3/6