This is a repost from my old LJ, from 2012. I spent a bit of time looking for it here, and realized it was there. Well, now it's here, too.
I picked up a collection of Fritz Leiber's work from the library. It included the short story "Ill Met in Lankhmar."
Then [Fafhrd] looked up at the Mouser with a broad, ingenuous smile.
"Fifty-fifty?" he suggested.
from "The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber"
What?
Fifty-fifty?
From the original:
Then [Fafhrd] looked up at the Mouser with a broad, ingenuous smile.
"Sixty-sixty?" he suggested.
Lankhmar Book 1: Swords And Deviltry
Yes, the original was sixty-sixty. Mouser agrees, and later repeats himself. Yes, the math is wrong. That's part of the humor in it.
Nice editing job guys. You marred the original work.
Grr.
"Nice editing job guys. You marred the original work."
ReplyDeleteInfuriating. Now if they toned down the 'horny old manisms' that crept into the last couple of books, I'm okay with that... still annoying, but an annoyance I could live with.
Even editing couldn't save the latter stuff from being more porn than adventure story.
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