Sometimes an author presents a dialogue without continuing to tell us which character is speaking. We have to keep track and this can be confusing especially if there is a grammatical error. On p. 172 of this edition, inverted commas are closed at the end of a paragraph and reopened at the beginning of the following paragraph even though it is a single character that speaks in both. When less pressed for time, I will check whether this error is corrected in The Complete Psychotechnic League.
The speaker refers to:
"'The Act of Nineteen Ninety-Nine...'" (ibid.)
Is this the only reference in this series to a specific date?
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