# Typos *The Whorl list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 10 Sep 1997* > 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. --- ### Michael Straight *10 Sep 1997, 08:44* > On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 m.driussi at genie.com wrote: > In the other direction, I still find it hard to believe that the > Marble/Mint merger was just the two typos Wolfe says it was. Even though > I don't know what a Marble/Mint merger would mean, let alone how it > could be done! Speaking of which, I wonder if there's any chance those typos will be fixed when they release Exodus in paperback. -Rostrum --- ### m.driussi *10 Sep 1997, 15:47 · follows Michael Straight* Reply: Item #6279912 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Rostrum, These days I hold my breath and hope that more typos aren't added. Your mention of it makes me think fleetingly of submitting a list of clear typos (nevermind those two stealthies), but nah, that would only make me more crazy. newt, Interesting point, re: the unambiguous/beat-reader-over-head with Christianity mode of C.S. Lewis. Can we take this a little further? My personal sense of Cordwainer Smith is that his work is somewhat closer to the mode of Lewis than the mode of Wolfe (I readily admit I prefer Smith over Lewis). Would you agree? (How about you, alga?) Not to denigrate any of these authors, just arranging them in a spectrum. (The Chesterton of THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY to my mind is definitely at the Wolfe end of the spectrum.) =mantis= --- ### Jim Jordan *11 Sep 1997, 00:16 · follows m.driussi* > At 03:47 PM 9/10/97 GMT, Mantis wrote: > > These days I hold my breath and hope that more typos aren't added. > Your > mention of it makes me think fleetingly of submitting a list of clear > typos (nevermind those two stealthies), but nah, that would only make > me more crazy. Could you or someone post the places where the typos in Long Sun are located? > Interesting point, re: the unambiguous/beat-reader-over-head with > Christianity mode of C.S. Lewis. Can we take this a little further? > My personal sense of Cordwainer Smith is that his work is somewhat > closer to the mode of Lewis than the mode of Wolfe (I readily admit I > prefer Smith over Lewis). Would you agree? (How about you, alga?) Jumping in, I myself much prefer Smith to Lewis, and agree that he is not ambiguous (though sometimes difficult). Thematically he is (was) very close to Wolfe, but stylistically quite different, no? Nutricious ---