Textual criticism of TBOTSS

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 18 Jun 2001, 08:50 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) Textual criticism of TBOTSS
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:50:42
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Quoth Jerry Friedman:

> Incidentally, maybe people who know about textual
> criticism will be skeptical of this, but it's possible
> that some of the fictional editing steps did in fact
> correct previous errors.

This is certainly possible, and does in fact happen in RL,
but nowhere near as often as it introduces them.=20

--Blattid

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