Despite technological advances, why do clangers still appear?
There’s a doozie in Dickens. A gaffe in Golding’s Lord of the Flies. A series of slip-ups in Sherlock Holmes, and howlers in Harry Potter. Yet who could say that these are shoddy novels? A mistake here, an inconsistency there do not a bad book make. Harry Potter’s popularity hasn’t suffered Doris Lessing, for one, does not approve. The 83-year-old novelist has complained that her latest book contains errors; mistakes that were not picked up in the editing process. Ms Lessing puts this down to cost-cutting and job losses in the publishing world. Instead of the “dragons” of yesteryear, whose sole task it was to tighten prose and spot wayward characterisation, she says today’s overworked editors merely make suggestions about punctuation. But mistakes are nothing new, be it a confused plot line or a typographical error, the likes of which rendered one of the 10 Commandments “Thou shalt commit adultery” in a 1631 edition of the King James Bible. Errors get through in other media too. Witnes
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