Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00860)

Daniel,

Surprising as it may be, Theos-talk is a passtime, something to practice my written English, and I have other things to do besides checking your inuendos about the theosophical movement. 


Carlos. 

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Assunto:Theos-World A TEST for Carlos: "a typical typing and proofreading mistake: jumping...."

> A TEST for Carlos: "a typical typing and proofreading mistake: 
> jumping over a word"????
> 
> Carlos,
> 
> In a previous posting, I pointed out that
> in HPB's original 1889 edition of the VOICE one
> finds the phrase:
> 
> "thin oblong squares" (Original edition, page vii)
> 
> Apparently the editor of the Theosophy Company's edition
> had changed the wording to read:
> 
> "thin oblongs" (p. ii, see TC ed.)
> 
> You reply:
> 
> =============================================================
> If what you say is right, it sounds like a typícal typing and 
> proofreading mistake: jumping over a word.
> =============================================================
> 
> POINT ONE:
> 
> Carlos, I find your comment: "If what you say is right..." somewhat
> puzzling if not entertaining.
> 
> Are you meaning to say that you have not or for some reason cannot
> verify whether what I say is right or wrong, true or false?
> 
> You simply have to pick up the TC edition of the VOICE and compare it 
> with the original edition of the VOICE. Now if you say that you 
> don't have an original 1889 edition, then you must have the TUP 
> edition or the Cleather/Peking edition. Look in one of those 
> editions.
> 
> Yes I am right and you could verify it in 5 minutes or less if you 
> really wanted to.
> 
> POINT TWO:
> 
> Are you trying to tell Theos-Talk readers that many if not all of 
> these 665 changes found by Dr. Stokes in the TC ed. of the VOICE 
> are MERELY typing and proofreading mistakes, like the example in the 
> first paragraph of "Isis"?
> 
> I assume a few could be but 665 mistakes????
> 
> But your "speculation" that they are mistakes (proofreading and 
> typing, etc.) can probably be tested.
> 
> First of all, consider the following.
> 
> In a letter dated March 30, 1928 and signed by THE
> THEOSOPHY COMPANY, an anonymous writer informed Dr.
> H.N. Stokes
> 
> "... Sometime ago the Theosophy Company came into
> possession of a copy of the original London edition of
> *The Voice of the Silence* with the typographical
> changes and corrections made by Mr. Judge in his own
> hand, and it is this text which is followed in the
> edition just being issued by the Theosophy Company. .
> . ." [quoted in O.E. LIBRARY CRITIC, July 1928.]
> 
> In a follow-up letter dated May 1, 1928, THE THEOSOPHY
> COMPANY again stated to Dr. Stokes the following:
> 
> "This new [TC 1928] edition . . . is set up *verbatim
> et literatim* from a copy of the original edition of
> *The Voice of the Silence* as corrected by Mr. Judge
> in his own handwriting. This copy we have in our
> possession. . . ." [quoted in O.E. LIBRARY CRITIC,
> July 1928.]
> 
> Notice the anonymous writer's words: "set up *verbatim et literatim*"
> 
> So I ask you Carlos, are those "mistakes" that you freely SPECULATE 
> about ... ARE THEY REALLY proofreading and typing mistakes, etc.,
> or are they actually something else... like "corrections"?
> 
> You seem to rely a great deal on MERE SPECULATION .... possibly this, 
> possibly that...but you seem not to be too concerned about trying to 
> find evidence that either verifies or falsifies your speculation.
> 
> So I ask you to contact your good friend Jerome Wheeler and see if he 
> will give you more information about the copy with 
> Judge's "corrections". If he is no longer at the ULT Los Angeles, 
> then contact some official there who can inspect this copy with 
> Judge's corrections.
> 
> Then they (Jerome or the official) can tell you if the words "thin 
> oblongs" is merely a proofreader's mistake by some poor ULT/TC worker 
> or whether the phrase ACTUALLY APPEARS in this copy with corrections 
> by W.Q.J.
> 
> Of course, there is more to this story, but I will leave it to 
> another posting and let you in the meantime digest this one.
> 
> It will be interesting to see if you just brush this all off and 
> ignore it or if you try to actually verify or falsify some of your 
> speculating.
> 
> Daniel
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