my name appeared on them all as editor , though , in truth , my only addition to the stream which is literature , was to make subjects and verbs agree ( sometimes when they stubbornly seemed unwilling to , fighting like kilkenny cats ) , clean up any language that strayed from the somewhat rocky path which is english grammar , take out the names of famous people in far-fetched tales of sexual misconducts ( to stave off lawsuits , obviously ) and substitute names of my own invention .