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Michael Straight10 Sep 1997, 08:44originalas archived
Typos
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On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 m.driussi at genie.com wrote: In the other direction, I still find it hard to believe that the Marble/Mint merger was just the two typos Wolfe says it was. Even though I don't know what a Marble/Mint merger would mean, let alone how it could be done!
Speaking of which, I wonder if there's any chance those typos will be fixed when they release Exodus in paperback. -Rostrum
m.driussi10 Sep 1997, 15:47originalas archived
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Reply: Item #6279912 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02# Rostrum, These days I hold my breath and hope that more typos aren't added. <cue: ranting about omnibus of Vance's PLANET OF ADVENTURE> Your mention of it makes me think fleetingly of submitting a list of clear typos (nevermind those two stealthies), but nah, that would only make me more crazy. newt, Interesting point, re: the unambiguous/beat-reader-over-head with Christianity mode of C.S. Lewis. Can we take this a little further? My personal sense of Cordwainer Smith is that his work is somewhat closer to the mode of Lewis than the mode of Wolfe (I readily admit I prefer Smith over Lewis). Would you agree? (How about you, alga?) Not to denigrate any of these authors, just arranging them in a spectrum. (The Chesterton of THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY to my mind is definitely at the Wolfe end of the spectrum.) =mantis=
Jim Jordan11 Sep 1997, 00:16originalas archived
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At 03:47 PM 9/10/97 GMT, Mantis wrote: These days I hold my breath and hope that more typos aren't added. <cue: ranting about omnibus of Vance's PLANET OF ADVENTURE> Your mention of it makes me think fleetingly of submitting a list of clear typos (nevermind those two stealthies), but nah, that would only make me more crazy.
Could you or someone post the places where the typos in Long Sun are located?
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Interesting point, re: the unambiguous/beat-reader-over-head with Christianity mode of C.S. Lewis. Can we take this a little further? My personal sense of Cordwainer Smith is that his work is somewhat closer to the mode of Lewis than the mode of Wolfe (I readily admit I prefer Smith over Lewis). Would you agree? (How about you, alga?)
Jumping in, I myself much prefer Smith to Lewis, and agree that he is not ambiguous (though sometimes difficult). Thematically he is (was) very close to Wolfe, but stylistically quite different, no? Nutricious

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