V2nd - Chapter 9 - two typos and another diminutive

[Mark Kohut]

I suspect in 1986 that you are right: it was scanned. And OCR gets things wrong, 
as you know.
Somehow by 1999 they had created a good digital file....

The original edition would not have had a digital file.



----- Original Message ----
From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 11:06:13 AM
Subject: Re: V2nd - Chapter 9 - two typos and another diminutive

> 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.
.