Technical Editors (gotta love'em)

The following is an exchange between the author of a technical book that describes how to compose music using a software product, and its technical editor. The topic is "layers," which are used to enter independent voices on a staff.

Author:

"The number of affective layers you introduce into your composition, no matter how uniformly trite and tragic, is in no way associated to the number of Finale layers employed. Although the melding of independent voices may be intended to speak to listeners at multiple levels, the practice itself cannot contribute to the accessibility of your composition any more than it can contribute to the intellectual depth of your audience."

Technical editor's comment:

"your joke here is not clear"