Is there a word for the opposite of 'decimate', ie to remove 90% of something? That's what Beryl Bainbridge did with her novels. In this 1977 interview with Mavis Nicholson, she observes that all her books are the same length - "158 pages" - and "to get that I write anything up to 1,500 pages".
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Beryl Bainbridge interview | Author | Thames Television | Good Afternoon | 1977
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