Errata update for "Gene Wolfe's First Four Novels: A Chapter Guide"
Gene Wolfe’s First Four Novels: A Chapter Guide (errata)
update: August 26, 2024
[These changes have been made to “first edition 2020, corrected 2024,” except for the Peace detail on Plant Engineering, which remains ambiguous.]
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
"The Fifth Head of Cerberus"
p. 13, chapter 1.05, Euripides subsection, before “at a moment,” add: [as from “Hercules Distracted” (line 611) in Wodhull’s The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments of Euripides (1809). The line comes at a moment . . . ]
p. 19, “‘A STORY’ BY JOHN. V. MARSCH” remove period after John
p. 41, Appendix VRT2: Outside Details
“Second: tape excerpt (197)” change to “Second (Constant): tape excerpt (197–207)”
“Fifth: (193)” change to “Fifth (Constant, satire verse): (194–97); prison notes (228–30) cover more after break, i.e., murder of Number Four”
“Seventeenth, Third Reel: tape excerpt (194–209); prison notes version (240)” change to “Seventeenth, Third Reel (Jabez): tape excerpt (139–40); prison notes (231–32) give name of Jabez, repeat photocopy bit”
THUS
• Second (Constant): tape excerpt (197–207).
• Fifth (Constant, satire verse): excerpt ends with tape breaking (194–97); prison notes (228–30) cover more after break, i.e., murder of Number Four.
• Seventeenth, Third Reel (Jabez): tape excerpt (139–40); prison notes (231–32) give name of Jabez, repeat photocopy bit.
p. 42, Appendix VRT3: Aid to Prison Notes
Cell 143 (first section)
“3.10: Second Interrogation (197); Fifth Interrogation (195)” remove line
Underground Cell 143 (second section)
Insert between 3.23 and 3.25: “3.24: Notes on Fifth Interrogation, the satiric verse, prisoner learns about death of Number Four (228–30), the last item presumably after the break in the tape (197), likely on the stray bit tossed out (244)”
Peace
p. 90, Plant Engineering subsection. “Gene Wolfe worked as an editor from 1972 to 1986” change the date range to “1972 to 1984.” [But there is ambiguity, as Plant Engineering claims he was there to 1986 (https://www.plantengineering.com/arti...) ]
The Devil in a Forest
p. 116, Fifteen “Jocellen” change to “Josellen”
p. 116, Seventeen “Jocellen” change to “Josellen”
p. 117, Twenty-Two, second to last sentence “Jocellen” change to “Josellen”
p. 119, “Jocellen” change to “Josellen”
update: August 26, 2024
[These changes have been made to “first edition 2020, corrected 2024,” except for the Peace detail on Plant Engineering, which remains ambiguous.]
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
"The Fifth Head of Cerberus"
p. 13, chapter 1.05, Euripides subsection, before “at a moment,” add: [as from “Hercules Distracted” (line 611) in Wodhull’s The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments of Euripides (1809). The line comes at a moment . . . ]
p. 19, “‘A STORY’ BY JOHN. V. MARSCH” remove period after John
p. 41, Appendix VRT2: Outside Details
“Second: tape excerpt (197)” change to “Second (Constant): tape excerpt (197–207)”
“Fifth: (193)” change to “Fifth (Constant, satire verse): (194–97); prison notes (228–30) cover more after break, i.e., murder of Number Four”
“Seventeenth, Third Reel: tape excerpt (194–209); prison notes version (240)” change to “Seventeenth, Third Reel (Jabez): tape excerpt (139–40); prison notes (231–32) give name of Jabez, repeat photocopy bit”
THUS
• Second (Constant): tape excerpt (197–207).
• Fifth (Constant, satire verse): excerpt ends with tape breaking (194–97); prison notes (228–30) cover more after break, i.e., murder of Number Four.
• Seventeenth, Third Reel (Jabez): tape excerpt (139–40); prison notes (231–32) give name of Jabez, repeat photocopy bit.
p. 42, Appendix VRT3: Aid to Prison Notes
Cell 143 (first section)
“3.10: Second Interrogation (197); Fifth Interrogation (195)” remove line
Underground Cell 143 (second section)
Insert between 3.23 and 3.25: “3.24: Notes on Fifth Interrogation, the satiric verse, prisoner learns about death of Number Four (228–30), the last item presumably after the break in the tape (197), likely on the stray bit tossed out (244)”
Peace
p. 90, Plant Engineering subsection. “Gene Wolfe worked as an editor from 1972 to 1986” change the date range to “1972 to 1984.” [But there is ambiguity, as Plant Engineering claims he was there to 1986 (https://www.plantengineering.com/arti...) ]
The Devil in a Forest
p. 116, Fifteen “Jocellen” change to “Josellen”
p. 116, Seventeen “Jocellen” change to “Josellen”
p. 117, Twenty-Two, second to last sentence “Jocellen” change to “Josellen”
p. 119, “Jocellen” change to “Josellen”
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