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epeterd
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"Oddity in FBtW"
 
   Just found something odd when reading Fair Blows the Wind. Page 211 in the LT edition. Tatton is talking to Jacob Binns about investing in shipping.

"very well. Whom do I see?"
He wrote a name on a slip of paper. "This woman." Then after a paragraph where Jacob tells how a woman is the owner of ships Tatton says this.
"Her name?"
"Delahay. Emma Delahay."

Why did he ask her name when Jacob had just given him a slip of paper with her name on it?

peter


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1. "RE: Oddity in FBtW"
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   It's a screw up. I wish I'd known because I might have edited it out, certainly Dad's editor should have caught it ... but didn't. He had them a bit scared to touch his stuff because they had messed up a few times (doing what I would deem silly, as opposed to necessary, edits) and they were a bit gun shy to try to do too much.

These things happen. Just today I was working on a chapter that takes place in Venezuela in the 1960s and realized that in an earlier chapter I had called the Venezuelan Air Force the "Bolivarian Air Force" ... a name created by the Chavez regime because it sort of presets some sort of extra-national jurisdiction over (or with) other the nations liberated by Simon Bolivar in the 19th century. In the '60s it was just the Venezuelan Air Force. I had to zip back 10 chapters and fix it. Working without a word processor, and rarely researching in the middle of writing, Dad missed a few things. But that's what an editor is for.


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2. "RE: Oddity in FBtW"
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   Mistakes happen. It's surprising that it has gone on this long, but I guess they don't have any reason to go back and read a book that was edited 44 years ago. I've read this book before and don't remember noticing it myself. It is too bad though since this is a new edition. Can they not change it for later printings of the LT edition, or is that too much trouble?
I've never heard the Bolivarian term, but I don't really know a whole lot about that area and it's history.

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3. "RE: Oddity in FBtW"
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   I used to tell them about stuff like this but I recently discovered it was being pretty much ignored ... or better said: lost in the cracks in the system. Basically, PRH won't record a change in the manuscript until just before they reprint, so I'd have to be ready on each at the moment it comes up.

So far I haven't had the time. Getting new work ready to go as taken precedence over what I have always thought was their responsibility.


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4. "RE: Oddity in FBtW"
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   Sounds frustrating, but I guess it's been there for 45 years, so a little longer won't make much difference. Hopefully it can get fixed eventually though.

peter


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5. "RE: Oddity in FBtW"
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   It's always on my mind ... but so are too many other things! I suffer from not having multiple personality disorder. Just think of what I could get done!


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6. "RE: Oddity in FBtW"
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   Just a thought but LL may have had Jacob Binns saying that Emma Delahay is someone to contact about investing in shipping because she is also a shipowner herself. You wouldn't expect Jacob Binns to write her a name on a second piece of paper to answer a second question.

Justintime


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