Typo in _Starwater Strains_?

mournings glory · 24 Aug 2005, 22:43 · from 2005-August.txt.gz

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From: mourningsglory at hotmail.com (mournings glory)
Date: Wed Aug 24 22:43:54 2005
Subject: (urth) Typo in _Starwater Strains_?
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Message-ID: <BAY107-F2944F49DD7A584F332BB4FD8AB0 at phx.gbl>

>On p. 217 of _Starwater Strains_ (U.S. hardbound), in "The Boy Who Hooked 
>the Sun", the phrase "pelted him with the shining stones of Atlantis" is a 
>recurring motif, except at what would be its third occurrence, where it is 
>printed as "pelted him with the shining stories of Atlantis".

>If anyone reading this has access to the Cheap Street chapbook, could you 
>tell us how the word appears in that edition?

"But the boy only laughed at her and pelted her with the shining stones of 
Atlantis, with agates and alexandrites, moonstones and onyxes, rubies, 
sardonyxes, and sapphires..."

Is this the third instance? If so it reads as written, with "stones, not 
"stories."

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