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I'd be curious to know how this was transcribed: it has "Totentons" evidently for "Totentanz". I seem to reread the book every n years, and often as not change
by cafard 10y ago
I'd be curious to know how this was transcribed: it has "Totentons" evidently for "Totentanz". I seem to reread the book every n years, and often as not change my mind from the previous reading.
- mci 10y ago> it has "Totentons" evidently for "Totentanz". Same goes for "fidelis ad urnum", which should read "urnam".
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoAnd probably gaudy in "gandy villas and bawdy house parties".
- washadjeffmad 10y agoI imagine if not originally dictated, his draft was hand written and submitted directly for typesetting. While possibly Mencken's errors, a linotype operator botching a slug or an editor misreading a partially open 'a' wouldn't be the severe error it is today in the age of autocorrect and instantaneous type production. When you post a comment, there's just a screen between you and all of the internet and its information. Mencken might have had weeks or months and a dozen people's hands between his review and its printing. Not to mention reprintings, revisions, and the eventual OCR close to a century later.