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I went through the proofs with three colors of highlighters, one for names of people, one for other proper nouns, and one for common nouns (“personhood,” “totalitarianism,” “squirrels”) that I thought I wanted to index. Then I read through the highlighted MS and created a word file. This works for everything except the entry for the idea or person the whole book is about (“Randall Jarrell,” “adolescence”), which editors insist you have, and which you have to create by flipping through the book rapidly after the rest of the index has been prepared.
