Procrustean --- editing anyone?

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While doing so, I felt uneasily procrustean : Here and there limbs of the manuscript needed to be stretched, and elsewhere a protruding foot might be lopped off, if all the episodes were to be edited into a single, coherent, continuous work.

John Callahan, "Afterword: A Note to Scholars," Juneteenth, by Ralph Ellison, 1999