(urth) Drotte-Roche mixup

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Wed Apr 20 15:56:06 PDT 2011


Probably no one asked him. I'd assume each series has a couple of bloopers.

If the rate of "errors" is found to be the same throughout the books, 
that is merely as would be predicted by the "error" hypothesis.

On 4/20/2011 10:38 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> James Wynn: "Consequently, it is reasonable to assume that the Roche/Drotte mix-up
>> could be a typo..
>
> I wouldn't go so far as to say it couldn't be a typo. But one reason I lean toward Antonio's
> view and why Drotte-Roche might need a somewhat higher level of typo evaluation than the Maytera
> Marble example is the obvious- Severian is (self-) purported to have a perfect memory. I would
> expect an author to find ways to support and/or undercut the "perfect memory" assertion in the
> first few chapters. So it could be purposeful.
>
> Horn makes no such claim and Wolfe has openly identified the "Marble" mistake as a typo.  If Drotte-
> Roche was also a typo, why has he not made the same identification? It has received so much more
> attention.
>
> Perhaps a third possibility exists..that it was originally a typo but it was not corrected, being
> seen as a happy accident that served Wolfe's purposes nicely. (Does an observed but purposefully
> uncorrected typo cease to be a typo?) 		 	   		
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