V2nd - Chapter 9 - two typos and another diminutive

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 08:20:45 CDT 2010


Harper Perennial - p 279
"When a mail wants to appear politically moral he speaks of human brotherhood."

In the long sentence, p 297, an un-mated paren:
"enemies that would be with him to the grave: a sun with no shape, a
beach alien as the moon's antarctic)"
(obviously a printer's error, should be a comma or just maybe a semicolon)

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another diminutive - p 281
(Kurt's Leipziger habit of sprinkling diminutives at apparent random)
"Hyenas and jackals are padding up and down those little corridors."
Korridorchen?  All the other ones seemed to begin, in German, with "A"
I was thinking it might be a Lacanian thing "little a" - but probably not




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- "It's what the psychoanalysts used to call ambivalence, what we now
call simply a heterodont configuration."



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