A 60/60 split

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.