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Query: ADA wifhm vs wjfhm
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Re: Query: wifhm
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Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:58:30 -0800
From:
"D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gte.net>
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International Nabokov Society
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vn <nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu>
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EDITOR's NOTE. See my note at end.
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Subject: wifhm
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:12:04 +1100 (EST)
From: Kiran Krishna <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
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In the Vintage edition of Ada (Part 1, Chapter 25, Page 157) the first
sentence in Van and Ada's secret code ends with the word wifhm (I am
not
entirely sure this isn't a printing mistake confined to my edition).
Correctly, this should be wjfhm, and the penguin edition makes the
change.
However, I wonder if the error is intentional on VN's part, and if so
what it signifies.
Cheers! yours
Kiran
"If there is a nuclear holocaust, only two things will survive -
cockroaches and FORTRAN."
-Kim Lester
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EDITOR's NOTE. The "J" is correct. Oddly, my 1969 edition (second
printing) has the correct wjfhm on p.157 The new Library of America
edition has the wrong "wifhm" (p. 127).
Re: Query: wifhm
Date:
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:58:30 -0800
From:
"D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gte.net>
Organization:
International Nabokov Society
To:
vn <nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu>
References:
1
EDITOR's NOTE. See my note at end.
--------------------
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: wifhm
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:12:04 +1100 (EST)
From: Kiran Krishna <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
----------------- Message requiring your approval (14 lines)
------------------
In the Vintage edition of Ada (Part 1, Chapter 25, Page 157) the first
sentence in Van and Ada's secret code ends with the word wifhm (I am
not
entirely sure this isn't a printing mistake confined to my edition).
Correctly, this should be wjfhm, and the penguin edition makes the
change.
However, I wonder if the error is intentional on VN's part, and if so
what it signifies.
Cheers! yours
Kiran
"If there is a nuclear holocaust, only two things will survive -
cockroaches and FORTRAN."
-Kim Lester
-----------------------
EDITOR's NOTE. The "J" is correct. Oddly, my 1969 edition (second
printing) has the correct wjfhm on p.157 The new Library of America
edition has the wrong "wifhm" (p. 127).