"A small hole would have given time to slap on an emergency path..." (VII, p. 263)
This one should be easy to correct. Emergency patch, right? However, it is still wrong in the later edition:
"A small hole would have given time to slap on an emergency path..."
-The Complete Psychotechnic League, VII, p. 211)
Rereading in this amount of detail focuses attention on the books as physical artifacts which, of course, is what they are composed of, not what they are about. This is brought home to us when we look at a text in a language that we cannot read, still more when the text is in an unfamiliar alphabet or when it is musical notation which my wife, Sheila, can read but I cannot. We have a Lancaster Musical Festival and she hopes to join in a performance at the Priory Church this weekend. (Of course I continue to reread Poul Anderson but other cultural activities go on here as well.)
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I'm reminded of the struggles Tolkien, and authorized editors after him, had trying to correct dozens and dozens of errors which crept into THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Ad astra! Sean
You can never catch every error. Trust me, I've had lots of experience with this.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, it's a Sisyphean struggle, trying to correct every error in one's works. I've experienced that myself, in a trivial way, striving to correct errors in my guest articles that Paul kindly pub. here.
Ad astra! Sean
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