Subject: Re: Typing and Typos
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 15:31:20 EST
My own personal gripe re typos in the works of one JDS: It occurs in at
least the old Bantam paperbacks and the
current-to-be-found-in-new-bookstores Little, Brown _paperbacks_ of RHTRBC &
SAI. In the second story, in an early-on paragraph beginning "Something,
now--and briskly, if I can--", a marvelous passage occurs, and the marring
typo, alas, intrudes into this chant-litany. But first, as it correctly
stands in the original New Yorker issue and the first edition of the book:
He [Seymour Glass] was a great many things to a great many people while he
lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat
outsized family. Surely he was all _real_ things to us: our blue-striped
unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our
portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet, [and
continues]....
"Our portable conscience" shows up as "or portable conscience" in the
aforementioned editions.
--Bruce
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