Mistakes/editing errors in "Solar Labyrinth"??
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 25 Aug 2006
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Jonathon McKitrick — 25 Aug 2006, 19:13

I'm on my second reading of BotNS, and I just got "Solar Labyrinth" in the
mail.  And I was surprised that only 12 pages into the book, I might have
found 2 errors.  I'm probably way off on this, but here goes:

1.  A reference to the crash in the Cathedral as having occurred in Claw, when
it was obviously the early half of Shadow.

2.  The author says in the chapter "Catherine" that anyone lame or limping, he
associates with Severian the Lame.  I looked back at the chapter, and saw no
such statement.

Am I missing something huge here?  Is there an errata page for this book?

Jonathon McKitrick

  --
  My other computer is your Windows box.

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Roy C. Lackey — 27 Aug 2006, 07:35
  follows, by subject match Jonathon McKitrick

> Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> 1.  A reference to the crash in the Cathedral as having occurred in Claw,
> when
> it was obviously the early half of Shadow.

Yeah, that's a mistake.

> 2.  The author says in the chapter "Catherine" that anyone lame or limping,
> he
> associates with Severian the Lame.  I looked back at the chapter, and saw
> no
> such statement.

You are right about his not having made such a reference directly in the
text of the "Catherine" chapter. Rather, he made the limping reference in
Note #4 for the "Catherine" chapter.

> Am I missing something huge here?  Is there an errata page for this book?

No, and no.

-Roy

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