The author uses curious methods to achieve verisimilitude, for instance, omitting the apostrophe in contractions, in order to recreate the speech of characters who are barely literate.
Brevity in succinctness is not achieved by shortening original material by coding or compressing it, but rather by omitting redundant material from it.
By varying the heat treatment to include water or liquid nitrogen quenching, or omitting the normalization heat-treat to permit work hardening, properties can be improved.
