V2nd - Chapter 9 - two typos and another diminutive

Albert Rolls alprolls at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 2 10:06:13 CDT 2010


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

When a man 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)
>
comma in orig


There should be no printer's errors: thes pages should be printed from PDFs, 
not film; the printer just has to load the file. Perhaps they're scanning 
errors (though scanning an older copy for the reprint seems odd to me), 
which show up more than one would like to see, especially in low budget 
houses that skip the proof-phase and rely on a freelance proofreader with a 
set number of hours to finish the work, but one think a budget would be in 
place to help avoid such things for a Harper Perennial Modern Classics with 
a guaranteed market.
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