PEACE: Weer through thick and thin

William Ansley · 30 Oct 2002, 04:18 · from urth-v0210.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE: Weer through thick and thin
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:18:55 -0500
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At 4:19 PM -0700 10/24/02, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:
>=3D=3D=3D
>TEXTUAL VARIATION ALERT
>In the hc it is "twenty . . . pounds underweight" (3).
>In the Berkley pb it is "twenty . . . pounds overweight" (3).
>=3D=3D=3D

The Orb paperback edition also reads "underweight." If this version=20
is correct, then Weer is always skinny, which would seem to throw at=20
least a small monkey wrench into your=20
time-splice-at-the-doctors-office theory. That is, if we have a=20
"thin, prosperous" Weer rather than a "fat, prosperous" Weer, then=20
there is less evidence that we have jumped from the Weer of one time=20
to the Weer of another. At the very least, we have lost a convenient=20
marker.
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William Ansley

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