Mistakes/editing errors in "Solar Labyrinth"??

Roy C. Lackey · 27 Aug 2006, 07:35 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:35:15 -0500
Subject: (urth) Mistakes/editing errors in "Solar Labyrinth"??
Message-ID: <002d01c6c9ab$5abc0560$e73ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

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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