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It's a strange specific pleasure to read things uploaded on edu personal websites, texts that someone copied out by hand into their word processor in the 90's,
by sharkjacobs 3y ago
It's a strange specific pleasure to read things uploaded on edu personal websites, texts that someone copied out by hand into their word processor in the 90's, complete with `<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97">`
Unfortunately this is a pretty bad copy of the text. I recommend seeking out a better version. It's from the collection Kiss Kiss, a scan of which is available on archive.org
There are obvious formatting issues and a slew of typos, but there are also whole missing sentences, and the last line has been miscopied as
> 'Isn't he sweet?' she cried, looking up at Landy with big bright eyes. 'Isn't he heaven? I just can't wait to get him home.'
instead of
> 'Isn't he sweet?' she cried, looking up at Landy with big bright eyes. 'Isn't he lovely? I just can't wait to get him home.'
- gwern 3y agoI've put up a better copy from _Kiss Kiss_: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1960-dahl-williamandmary.html https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1960-dahl-will...