Drotte-Roche mixup (was: Introduction and Breath)

Jeff Wilson · 16 Apr 2011, 23:39 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:39:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: (urth) Drotte-Roche mixup (was: Introduction and Breath)
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> A few reasons why I feel this way:
> Firstly, because substituting one name for another is an easy mistake
> for a writer to make, and a hard one for an editor to spot. Mistakes
> get published all the time.
[...]
> memory was suspect. But that doesn't happen. Severian says Roche said
> it, then almost immediately he says Drotte said it. If that's an error
> of memory, then Severian has not only remembered an incident in two
> completely different ways in the space of a couple of paragraphs, but
> he's forgotten what he *wrote* just two paragraphs ago. That's not
> imperfect memory. That's serious brain damage.

We do know that various office functions are still being expected of Sev
as he writes. Time passes, Dr Talos comes and goes. Sev could as easily
gone a final weekend trip, moved his bowels, and approved a dozen
executions between writing "Roche" and "Drotte".

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