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   Joe Fineman to All   
   Re: "Srap" - ??   
   26 Oct 06 01:33:28   
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   P.S.  I detected another blunder by Davison in the Complete Works.   
   Unfortunately, I did not make a note of it; when I discovered, to my   
   indignation, that no Web site had been set up for corrections, I let   
   it pass.  In one of the diaries, O. mentions taking a walk in Kensal   
   Rise Cemetery.  Davison "corrects" that to Kensal Green, a much   
   better-known cemetery and one commonly used to allude to death   
   (O. himself, IIRC, uses it that way in one of the novels; and, as   
   Davison noted, Chesterton does so in a famous poem).  Google reveals,   
   however, that (1) Kensal Green & Kensal Rise are alternative names for   
   the same London neighborhood, and (2) they are names for distinct   
   cemeteries in that neighborhood.  (To be cautious:  I cannot find an   
   explicit contrast between them; it may be that they are likewise   
   alternative names for the same cemetery.)  I took the trouble to look   
   that up because it seemed implausible that O. would mistake the name   
   of a place in his own neighborhood, and one that he frequented to   
   boot.  It seems to me Davison ought to have been suspicious too.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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