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PEACE: Weer through thick and thin
↰ answers Michael Andre-Driussi
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At 4:19 PM -0700 10/24/02, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:
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TEXTUAL VARIATION ALERT
In the hc it is "twenty . . . pounds underweight" (3).
In the Berkley pb it is "twenty . . . pounds overweight" (3).
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The Orb paperback edition also reads "underweight." If this version is correct, then Weer is always skinny, which would seem to throw at least a small monkey wrench into your time-splice-at-the-doctors-office theory. That is, if we have a "thin, prosperous" Weer rather than a "fat, prosperous" Weer, then there is less evidence that we have jumped from the Weer of one time to the Weer of another. At the very least, we have lost a convenient marker.
William Ansley
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