Despite the best efforts of book designers, proof readers and editors,
a few mistakes sometimes slip into print. Below are some of the ones noted
so far in Rough Magicke.
- Pg. 3, "more than a hundred and thirty years before"
- While this phrase is technically correct, something like 158 years actually
passed between the pioneer settlement and the time at which Jonathan is
speaking, 1992. Cf. page 344.
- Pg. 19, "after sixteen years"
- Jonathan was graduated from AMA in 1970 and began Cloyne Divinity School
in 1974 (cf. page 31). If he has been teaching at AMA for sixteen years,
he would seem to have graduated from Cloyne after two years: not impossible,
though the Master of Divinity degree is typically a three-year program.
- Pg. 54, "Mightn't here be"
- Mightn't there be
- Pg. 56, "rumors got through the corps"
- rumors go through the Corps
- Pg. 86, "to my surpass"
- to my surprise
- Pg. 104, "for it we have been joined"
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- for if we have been joined
- Pg. 119, "lifting his coronet to his lips"
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- It seems unlikely that the bugler was making music on a piece of princely
headgear: read "cornet," rather than "coronet"
- Pg. 162, "Academy road"
- Academy Road
- Pg. 186, "Aubenaubee Bay"
- Glenarm's Bay. Cf. pp. 7, 280.
- Pg. 252, "David's mind"
- Lee's mind
- Pg. 280, "Cressy"
- Not, in fact, an error: Dr. Davies is deliberately using the medieval
English form of the name, rather than the French "Crécy."
- Pg. 366, "road 35"
- Road 35
- Pg. 371, "Are going to look now"
- Are you going to look now
- Pg. 385, "Café du Monde"
- The actual New Orleans-themed restaurant in the real Palmer House Hilton
is called "The French Quarter," and apparently does not serve beignets,
those specialties of The Café du Monde in New Orleans'
Jackson Square. This is one of those oversights of reality which fiction
has the privilege of correcting.
- Pg. [411], "My thanks are due"
- Ironically missing from this list is Mr. Lewis Kopp, of the Culver Academies, who provided several absolutely last-minute corrections.