Sometimes the flaw is that which is most beautiful.Ĭertainly, there are no shortage of them. When Lockheed Martin designed the Mars Climate Orbiter using American units and NASA assumed that they’d used the metric system instead, a discrepancy that resulted in that satellite crashing into the red dust of the fourth planet from the sun-that was a mistake. And when the physician Alexander Fleming left out a culture plate which got contaminated, and he noticed the flourishing of a blue mold that turned out to be penicillin-that was a mistake. Errors in how people hear phonemes are what lead to the development of new languages mistakes in an animal’s DNA propel evolution getting lost can render new discoveries. They can be detrimental, beneficial, neutral. If error were simply an issue of a wrong comma here or an incorrect word there it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting, but mistakes undergird our lives, even our universe. Authors make mistakes, as do editors, publishers, printers (and readers).
Nothing done by humans is untouched by such fallenness, for to err is the universal lot of all of us. Blessed are the copyeditors, for theirs is a war of eternal attrition. It’s the shadow narrative of expression-how we fail because of sloppiness, or ignorance, or simple tiredness. Literature’s history is a history of mistakes, errors, misapprehensions, simple typos. This edition was later deemed the “Wicked Bible.”
The King James Version of the Bible has exactly 783,137 words, but unfortunately for the London print shop of Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, official purveyors to King Charles I, their 1631 edition left out three crucial letters, one crucial word-”not.” As such, their version of Exodus 20:14 read, “Thou shalt commit adultery.” Their royal patron was not amused. Long hours and fatigue, repetitive motion and sprained wrists, dim light and strained eyes-mistakes were inevitable. Arranging sorts was laborious, and for smaller fonts, such as those used in a Bible, the pieces could be just a millimeter across. Carefully fastened into an iron composing stick, the printer would spell out words and sentences which would be locked into a wood-frame galley and then organized into paragraphs and pages. Capitalized letters were kept in the top portion (hence “upper case”) and those that weren’t were stored in the bottom (thus “lower case”). Technically known as “sorts,” the letters a print setter used were crafted from copper and stored like tiny inked seeds in a wooden case. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. Only a very sick, very brainwashed people applaud their own demise (1:10 into the video).A man of genius makes no mistakes. Rube Goldberg copied Heath Robinson (cf. Anglin goes to town on the Incel issue: part 1, part 2, part 3 Yeadon short (7 mins.), Yeadon medium (21 mins.) defies logos) when he says (at 44:40) that ‘Racial differences have no effect on behavior or identity other than what gets projected on them as categories of the mind.’ On the other side, Jared Taylor raises his hand to his face and partially covers his mouth whenever he is forced to confront the Jewish question - The reported FDA vaccine approval is a trick: see the Bannon-Malone video (4 mins.) Sheppard-watchers have a great interview to look forward to - A great debate: E. Prison visits are suspended indefinitely at Hull due to the Covid panic, so inmates are in lockdown for 23 hours a day. Incoming mail is opened by prison staff, and most of it is routinely photocopied - so keep messages sensible, and avoid anything provocative. “Simon Sheppard was remanded in custody at HMP Hull in late August 2021 and is still awaiting sentencing following conviction on four charges at crown court.