Drotte-Roche mixup

James Wynn · 18 Apr 2011, 22:40 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:40:13 -0500
Subject: (urth) Drotte-Roche mixup
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I think it is in Exodus of the Long Sun. There is a passage where "Mint" 
is mistakenly says "Marble" and another in a different place where 
"Marble" is mistakenly says "Mint". It was moderately confusing since it 
was as though the two had momentarily switched places in the story.
J

On 4/18/2011 5:35 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Which Marble/Mint mixup is that? I'm pretty sure I fell for it myself, 
> but I don't recall where it is.
>
> It's certainly an understandable error.
>
> On 4/18/2011 5:17 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>> When I get home, I intend to see if the Marble/Mint mix-up in the 
>> "The Book of Long Sun" was replicated in the "Epiphany of the Long 
>> Sun" re-release. Wolfe seemed quite annoyed by mistakes like that 
>> when he was asked. If it is there, I will accept it as possible that 
>> an editorial mistake like that could be considered Set In Stone and 
>> reproduced in all subsequent volumes.
>>
>> If it was fixed in subsequent volumes, then I will have ask why the 
>> Drotte/Roche error was never fixed in all the re-releases in that 
>> last 31 years.
>>
>> J
>>

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