It apparently never occurred to even one of these overpaid scribes to eliminate Hopkins' rueful realization that he'd never write the great American novel--no kidding, given his flagrantly Welsh accent.
Hopkins didn't actually need any scribes, but he had them as a mostly precautionary measure.
mnli hypothesis: Hopkins didn't actually need any scribes, but he had them as a mostly precautionary measure. premise: It apparently never occurred to even one of these overpaid scribes to eliminate Hopkins' rueful realization that he'd never write the great American novel--no kidding, given his flagrantly Welsh accent.