Re: Delany errata on the web -- responses from Chip

Three things, folks.

1) Dark Reflections corrections are now up on my site.

2) Chip's response to "Mereget" vs. "Maroger":
Zvi is right. It's "Maroger." Someone actually caught that years ago,
back when only the Bantam edition was out. (Marilyn used to use a
commecial variety of it, back when she was a student at the Art
Students' League, studying with Edwin Dickenson. And I recall he gave
them a class in how to make the stuff--he swore it was much better to
make your own. Somewhere in there, it includes lead, I believe.) But I
guess it must have slipped through the cracks . . .
Please convey my best (and great thanks) to Zvi.

3) Chip's response to "cell-sink" vs. "sel-sync":
Thanks again to Zvi for the "sel-sync" correction. (I want to say, "I
knew that!" But, back then, when I was writing it, I doubt I did.)

Oh, one more thing . . . there's now a form on the "contact" page of
my site where people can submit possible errors. I'll forward 'em to
Chip for review/verification.

--Kevin

--- In [email protected], zvi@... wrote:
>
> > This is from the mouth of a character--should not
> > characters, each with its own sense of the way things
> > are, be allowed to make errors?  Or would the error in
> > question be too unlikely for the particular character
> > to make?  Or, if the two words sound alike, is it
> > possibly an error in the narrator's transcription of
> > what was said?
> 
> I agree these issues are directly relevant as to whether this
> misspelling should be corrected. But I can point to a couple of
> places in the errata where the spelling of complex words that
> someone says (Newboy, Kidd) to the putative narrator *is* corrected.
> 
> And do you think that Lanya -- an art student and tape jockey
> -- would herself not know how these words were spelled? (sell-sink /
> cell-sync was the other, similar case.)
> 
> SRD may have his reasons to keep the 'misheard' spelling; or,
> for whatever reason, these ones weren't caught. It would be
> interested to hear which possibility obtains, anyway, and when
> a scholar creates the annotated DHALGREN a hundred years from
> now when we're all dead, I want the hyperlinked note to
> give the right spelling(s). :)
> 
> --Zvi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > --- zvi@... wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks, Kevin. It's nice to have them up
> >> electronically; also, it's great
> >> that the hard-working participants of this list got
> >> a mention when we
> >> helped out Maurizio with the Italian translation --
> >> I notice a few on that
> >> page that we discovered.
> >>
> >> I didn't see this one, and I was wondering if you
> >> could forward it to SRD
> >> (or, possibly, it's already been corrected; I have
> >> the Bantam paperback
> >> and the Wesleyan paperback but not the Vintage one).
> >>
> >> ===
> >> >>p. 701 [Wesleyan]
> >> >><Christ, I used to spend weeks making black oil
> >> and Mereget>
> >> >>What's that Mereget? I dind't find it anywhere.
> >>
> >> I think it's 'Maroger', short for 'Maroger medium'.
> >> A google search on
> >> 'black oil' + 'oil painting' came up with an
> >> extensive site giving
> >> particulars of how to mix various oil painting
> >> mediums
> >> (http://www.oils-studio.co.uk/mediums.htm); Jacques
> >> Maroger was a curator
> >> and art researcher (1884-1962) who "researched
> >> extensively into the
> >> materials and techniques of the Old Masters and
> >> wrote a book on the
> >> subject". The formulas that bear his name are used,
> >> like black oil, to mix
> >> with the oil pigments so they dry faster in complex
> >> ways and add various
> >> tones to the oil paint.
> >>
> >> Further evidence: yes, black oil and Maroger
> >> medium(s) [media?] are
> >> extremely toxic and dangerous to mix up; thus,
> >> Lanya's comment (which
> >> follows immediately on what you've quoted) that
> >> "It's a wonder I didn't
> >> asphyxiate someone." makes perfect sense.
> >>
> >> Also note that mereget and maroger sound quite
> >> similar at least to the
> >> American ear ;) . 'Meh-ro-zhe'.
> >> ===
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> --Zvi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > FWIW, the Dhalgren entries are now almost
> >> complete.
> >> > --- In [email protected], "nivekgnir"
> >> <kdring@> wrote:
> >> >> Hi, folks.
> >> >> Just wanted everyone to know that for those of
> >> you interested in the
> >> >> matter, Chip has kindly allowed me to put
> >> correction sheets for his work
> >> >> up on my website. I only have information for
> >> four books right now
> >> >> (Nova, Empire Star, Babel-17, and Aye, And
> >> Gomorrah and other stories),
> >> >> but I plan on getting pretty much everything up
> >> there, eventually. Of
> >> >> course, those four were the easiest as I had them
> >> in a Word document.
> >> >> The rest are in typed sheets. I'm starting on
> >> Dhalgren soon -- if anyone
> >> >> has a recent list of corrections to Dhalgren in
> >> electronic format,
> >> >> please let me know. Chip's copy was damaged
> >> beyond repair.
> >> >> Here's the link:
> >> http://www.oneringcircus.com/delany_main.html
> >> >> <http://www.oneringcircus.com/delany_main.html>
> >> >> --Kevin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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