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From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick at english.unimelb.edu.au> Subject: Re: (urth) More 5HC Variant texts Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:48:24 +1100 ...
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Here is the 1976 Ace version
Here is the Scribners 1972(?) hardcover edition
Looks to me like a classic typesetting error first time around, corrected later.
D'oh! My careless reading, as bad as the luckless typesetter's. I stupidly took the first cite as the earlier (on-top-ology recapitulates file-ology). The typo dynamics remain valid, however, as someone else noted.
Damien Broderick
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And all this time I thought the paperback was the earlier edition, and it never occurred to me the difference was a simple typo! Do you know, I puzzled over that sentence "all the worlds will be born" for a good fifteen years, until I read the Scribner's version?