Reply To: Typo in Blodo Meridien
You can go back a little like most words in English and find connections to Sanskrit and German….etc. The word “find” is connected to our original reading…which was tracking animals. So walking ,...
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Wes is right. And in Samuel Johnson’s great A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, definition 15 for TO FIND is: “To supply; to furnish; as, he finds me in money and in victuals.” Thus in meaning TO...
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steveholden suggests cleverly in the thread titled “Typo in Blodo Meridien” that there may be a typo in the text of Blood Meridian, and that the word “find” should be “fund” in the phrase “…provided...
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On my 3d go round of reading BM, I noticed a typo that appears not only in the first edition (1985) but all subsequent editions right through yesterday. OR perhaps I’m wrong. I was wrong once; I voted...
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