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> If I understand him aright be sets out to depict not merely the fair show of things but the inner truth I can't parse this. It reads like an OCR error; shoul
by bambax 5y ago
> If I understand him aright be sets out to depict not merely the fair show of things but the inner truth
I can't parse this. It reads like an OCR error; should it read "If I understand him alright, he sets out..."?
- radiowave 5y ago"Aright" is probably correct, if a bit archaic from our perspective, but "be" is almost certainly OCR error (plus lack of proof reading), and not the only one. Long live the Grauniad. (That being a nickname given to The Guardian due to its tendency for typos.)
- KineticLensman 5y agoNot just typos - from [0], we have “The absence of corrections yesterday was due to a technical hitch rather than any sudden onset of accuracy.” [0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/12/guardian-200-typo-negative-best-worst-grauniad-mistakes https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/12/guardian-200-t...
- jwilk 5y ago"James Joyce: The Critical Heritage" <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.120428 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.120428> includes a copy of this review (pages 213–216). It says: > If I understand him aright he sets out…