My email isn't getting through to bugs or errors@pglaf.org So I'm forwarding this here. Michael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:17:09 -0400 From: Whitney Landon <swlandon@prexar.com> To: Michael S. Hart <hart@pglaf.org> Subject: Re: A Gutenberg text.A few poss. typos Happenstantial more-than-a-few-weeks-later find of this -- there's been no contact from bugs@pglaf.org . Thanks again. WL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pglaf.org> To: "Whitney Landon" <swlandon@prexar.com> Cc: <hart@pobox.com> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:06 AM Subject: Re: A Gutenberg text.A few poss. typos
I forwarded to bugs@pglaf.org for you.
Let me know if you don't hear from them in a few weeks, which is entirely possible, and I may take of it for you.
Many thanks!!!
Michael
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Whitney Landon wrote:
A few probable/possible typos [in brackets, below] and a possible omission from:Title: The Great God Success
Author: John Graham (David Graham Phillips)
Release Date: April, 2005 [EBook #7989] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on June 10, 2003]
Edition: 10
8gtgd10.txtOriginally published in 1901, per Wikipedia. No text date in Gutenberg download."Precisely. I think I will put you next [to] him."Washington Square, South, about--three years [that double-dash punctuation is weird; looking at it now it could well be the way it was published, having seen it a lot, but it's still weird]I do not want your friends[.] I do not want to be respectable. Howard held her away from him and studied her face, surprise in his eyes. "Isn't it strange?" he said.[paragraph break? Howard continues ...] "Here I've been seeing youopen window and she W[w]as propped with pillowsHoward took his rooms in the Royalton. ... his club where he was living for a few days [two don't mesh; hard to imagine how it's a typo, tho]_do_ [many such constructions: translate to italic if possible; can "search" for the _ (underline) to find them; maybe impossible with font/face]his power of concentration[.] Hea S[s]ense of relief and of calmness [probably]Provost and her niece, Miss Marion[typo? jab at newspapers' proclivities for typos? "Marian" with two "a"s, everywhere else]At a[ ]bound it had becomeHe drew a[ ]long breath and-------------------Thanks for the book. I learned about the author for the first time in the Times to/yesterday http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/us/politics/11senate.html?_r=1followed that with some Wikipedia, then came (only 2nd or 3rd time, but with confidence) to PG .... Finished in a sitting. Quite an experience. Thanks again.Whitney LandonBrooksville, Maine
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