From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) uncut dogs
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:09:45 +0100


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From: "Adam Stephanides" 
> I've just consulted my copy of 5HC, and there's nothing in that passage
> about "binding."  The relevant parts of that entry are "I could climb down
> and catch them together (I _know_ she is with him, I can almost hear
them),
> except that I can smell the ghoul-bear somewhere near.  They would die,
the
> two of them -- when the boy was washing I noticed he wasn't circumcised.
If
> they were like that when I came, I think I would shoot them both."  (p.
251,
> Ace pb)  So either there's a major discrepancy here between the Ace pb and
> other editions, or the whole "binding" theme is a non-issue (which, of
> course, makes Marsch's remark about Victor's non-circumcision even more
> irrelevant).


Whoops.

The problem is my Quartet edition, which has this misprint

       "they would *tie*, the two of them"

Problem solved, and apologies all round.


    hartshorn





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