https://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=AllenschillThomas Pynchon Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-07-19T12:55:16ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Errata&diff=15761Errata2009-12-06T21:13:24Z<p>Allenschill: /* Errata in first printing (Nov. 2006), first US edition */wrong ending in an Italian word</p>
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<div>The following list provides '''errata''' for ''[[Against the Day]],'' indicating places where readers have found misspellings, punctuation gaffes or other similar errors. Please note that some of these "mistakes" may be deliberate stylistic choices on the author's part.<br />
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== Errata in first printing (Nov. 2006), first US edition ==<br />
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[[Against the Day description|Front flap]]: "Nikolai" Tesla, elsewhere (and conventionally) "Nikola"<br />
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Copyright page line 1: "VIKING" (should be "PENGUIN PRESS")<br />
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Copyright page line 16: "Viking Penguin" (should be "Penguin Press")<br />
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Page 63 line 14 "Unless," Ed pointed out, ["]it ''is'' God."<br />
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Page 82 line 1 "richochets"<br />
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Page 82 line 30 "Cour d'Alene"<br />
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Page 87 line 12 "be" doubled<br />
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Page 87 line 31-32 "ridegerunning"<br />
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Page 92 line 15 "what" doubled<br />
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Page 116 line 39 "de[c]lared"<br />
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Page 202 line 32 "Didt'n" (possibly)<br />
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Pae 236 line 10: "Headingly" (should be "Headingley")<br />
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Page 236 line 38: "exhiliration"<br />
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Page 240 line 8 "Re[n]frew"<br />
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Page 248 line 18: ''Culo'',[']"<br />
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Page 254 line 31 "recon[n]aissance"<br />
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Page 276 line 5: "polyhedral" a quick scan of a number of dictionaries yields no acknowledgement that polyhedral can be used as a noun. Should be "polyhedron"<br />
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Page 284 line 19: tartalan should be tarlatan<br />
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Page 292 line 36: "d'you" should be "D'you"<br />
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Page 307 line 14 how about that?["]<br />
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Page 334 line 19 "of" doubled<br />
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Page 348 line 1 "sixth" should be "Sixth"<br />
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Page 369 line 11 "guignette" should be "guinguette"<br />
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:Are you certain about this? [[User:WikiAdmin|WikiAdmin]] 15:38, 4 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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Page 374 line 20 "that" should be "than"<br />
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Page 380 line 24 "Sergeant, Vasquez" should be "Sergeant Vasquez"<br />
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Page 385 line 34 "knowss"<br />
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Page 399 line 33-34 "were" should be "was" to agree with "band"<br />
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Page 409 line 17 "Wellesianism"<br />
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Page 420 line 28 "opportunit[i]es"<br />
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Page 427 line 7 "esssential"<br />
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Page 440 line 33 "sib[i]lance"<br />
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Page 490 line 16 "Phil[l]ippa"<br />
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Page 503 line 25 "The cycle, Yashmeen, speculated, might..."<br />
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Page 505 line 1 "momument"<br />
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Page 513 line 11 "smlled"<br />
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Page 515 line 32 "th[r]oughout"<br />
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Page 515 line 39 last line: "Root Tubsmith had discovered this much [this] from nosing around"<br />
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Page 517 line 15 "''Haupthei[t]zer''" (In this and next 2 entries, consider the possibility that Pynchon used a contemporary source (1890s to 1910s) containing an archaic spelling with the '''tz.''')<br />
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Page 517 line 25 "Oberhaupthei[t]zer"<br />
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Page 518 line 1 "off" for "of"<br />
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Page 519 line 16 "Oberhaupthei[t]zer"<br />
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Page 521 line 22 "Kit, not convinced he had a future in the Habsburg navy, had decided to debark here, and quickly found a room between the port and the Mogador road and begun hanging around..." — if, beginning with the word "found," the verb forms switch in this sentence from the past participle ("had decided") to the simple past/preterite, then "begun" should read: "began".<br />
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Page 522 line 17 "alimzah" should be "azlimzah"<br />
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Page 524 line 10 "exhilirated"<br />
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Page 531 Line 13 "rende[z]vous"<br />
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Page 534 Line 4 "they perverted what the Vectorists thought they know of God's intention" — should be: "thought they knew"?<br />
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Page 548 line 24 "harbors," comma should be period<br />
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Page 552 line 23 "be" doubled<br />
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Page 563 line 36 "''mo[d]erskont''" (?)<br />
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Page 566 line 36 "''Kon[n]ichiwa''"<br />
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Page 616 line 21 dueling transliterations: "Izmeren[i]ye"<br />
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Page 623 line 18 ''Verfluchte[r]''<br />
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Page 636 line 4 "f[r]om"<br />
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Page 652 line 12 "opportunit[i]es"<br />
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Page 680 line 10 "Colonnel"<br />
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Page 726 line 26 "Adam[s]<br />
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Page 766 line 25 "Rimpung" should be "Rinpung"<br />
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Page 778 line 1 "have [to] go"<br />
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Page 782 line 16 "when" doubled<br />
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Page 786 line 5 "th[r]ough"<br />
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Page 790 line 5-6 "interrested"<br />
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Page 790 line 24 "a[r]rival"<br />
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Page 799 line 4 "st[r]eet"<br />
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Page 801 line 12 "susceptib[i]lity"<br />
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Page 831 line 5 "ar[t]ificial"<br />
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Page 880 line 38 "Gradengio" for Gradenigo<br />
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Page 887 line 25 "endlessless" for endlessness<br />
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Page 896 line 37 "''Tallis'' Fantasia" [of Vaughan Williams]: misleading italics<br />
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Page 900 line 19 "the" doubled<br />
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Page 915 line 16 "perfo[r]ming"<br />
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Page 943 line 4 "Ou[t]side"<br />
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Page 943 line 36 "unfor[e]seen [variant, 'fore' used elsewhere] <br />
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Page 968 line 27 "every[b]ody"<br />
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Page 971 line 4 "were" doubled<br />
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Page 1000 line 14 final period omitted from L.A.H.D.I.H.D.A[]<br />
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Page 1034 line 7 "Thickbush" [vs. "Thick Bush" at 8.3]<br />
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Page 1036 line 36 "querelans" [vs. "querulans" at 455.16]<br />
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Page 1036 line 32 "'Dick' Counterfly" [vs. double quotation marks on pp. 1034&ndash;35, 1037&ndash;38]<br />
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Page 1037 line 29 "tran[s]parencies"<br />
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Page 1049 line 21 ""Roswell" for "Roswell"<br />
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Page 1071 line 35 "''Um''" for "''Un''"<br />
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Page 1070 line 21 "Mole" (massive shape) Antonelliana, not "Molo" (jetty or pier).<br />
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Page 1074 line 26 "...Reef, Stray, and Ljubica returned..." should be Yashmeen, not Stray (Estrella)<br />
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Page 1087 ("ABOUT THE AUTHOR"): lists ''Mason '''and''' Dixon,'' rather than ''Mason '''&''' Dixon'' as given on the "Also by Thomas Pynchon" page in the front matter.<br />
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'''Back Flap:''' ''Mason '''and''' Dixon''<br />
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