(urth) Drotte-Roche mixup

[David Stockhoff]

I think I remember that---thanks.

I always had trouble with them anyway. If I recall, Mint is a bio, 
Marble is a chem with fleshy prostheses, and Rose was an old bio with 
metal prostheses.

On 4/18/2011 6:40 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> I think it is in Exodus of the Long Sun. There is a passage where 
> "Mint" is mistakenly says "Marble" and another in a different place 
> where "Marble" is mistakenly says "Mint". It was moderately confusing 
> since it was as though the two had momentarily switched places in the 
> story.
> J
>
> On 4/18/2011 5:35 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> Which Marble/Mint mixup is that? I'm pretty sure I fell for it 
>> myself, but I don't recall where it is.
>>
>> It's certainly an understandable error.
>>
>> On 4/18/2011 5:17 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>>> When I get home, I intend to see if the Marble/Mint mix-up in the 
>>> "The Book of Long Sun" was replicated in the "Epiphany of the Long 
>>> Sun" re-release. Wolfe seemed quite annoyed by mistakes like that 
>>> when he was asked. If it is there, I will accept it as possible that 
>>> an editorial mistake like that could be considered Set In Stone and 
>>> reproduced in all subsequent volumes.
>>>
>>> If it was fixed in subsequent volumes, then I will have ask why the 
>>> Drotte/Roche error was never fixed in all the re-releases in that 
>>> last 31 years.
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>
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