# D'oh! I can't even get my errors right! *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Mar 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Talarican *17 Mar 2000, 20:14* From: Damien Broderick Subject: Re: (urth) More 5HC Variant texts Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:48:24 +1100 ... >> 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 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? ---