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From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> Subject: Re: (urth) More 5HC Variant texts Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:42:46 +1100 >Here is the 1976 Ace version (p. 95 in both the $1.75 and $2.50 version <g>): > >"That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart. When it is >gone, all the worlds will be born. But now listen to me." > >Here is the Scribners 1972(?) hardcover edition (p. 88): > >"That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart. When it is >gone, all the worlds will come together in a fiery death from which new >worlds will be born. But now listen to me." Looks to me like a classic typesetting error first time around, corrected later. Regard the break point: two instances of `worlds will', separated by about a line of text. No need to get cosmogonic abt it. Damien Broderick *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/