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How to start a literary magazine, part n+2

Get a small-business bank account. Go to the bank on a Saturday morning, when it’s just you and the bank security guard and like one teller. Speak with a polite if somewhat rambling lady about your small-business needs. Watch as she searches through the computerized list of small-business categories for magazine, and fails to find it: “Precision machinery? Ball bearings? Small arms? Wood pulping?” Think: that’s got to be a long list, and she’s going through it, item by item. Nod along with the music (“Safety Dance”). Ask if the music’s always so awesome, or if that’s like a Saturday-morning treat. She’ll stare at you, as if she hadn’t noticed that there was any music, and then turn back to the list: “Construction materials manufacturing… industrial agriculture…”