From: "Huw Foster" <huw.foster@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Exodus from the Long Sun
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:42:29 -0000

From: "Michael Andre-Driussi" <mantis@siriusfiction.com>
To: <whorl@lists1.ba.best.com>

> Hello there Huw,
>
> Welcome aboard!  We hope and trust that ranjit will have the list-move

Thanks.  Glad to have found this list............

> OTOH, Patrick O'Leary (one of the original posters on TBOTLS) some months
> ago told me that he was reading another edition of THE BOOK OF THE LONG
> SUN, I think it was the omnibus edition?  Anyway, he said that the much
> beloved line had been changed from the first person "I" to the third
> person.
>

That would appear to be the case, but I would rather believe that this is a
mistake - some smart proof-reader having altered it erroneously while
congratulating himself on attention to detail! ("Ha, they never spotted THAT
in the NEL edition...")

Huw