misprints

Douglas Koller wrote:

> and to use Spellcheck judiciously,
> as it allows such mistakes as
> "Oh, what a beautiful mourning!".

This remids me a story by David Garnett,
in which every alternate word had a one-letter misprint,
but each misprint made another word.

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            The Spaceshop

He hid to retch the slop before cloning time.

  Talking hurriedly alone, he chucked his witch. Only ode minute
new, even loss...

  And if was ill his owl fault. Hat he loft earlier, these would
net be much a rash. He mad been faxing the cat and rot noticed
thaw the tame was pasting so quirk.

  He packed up lace, then sew the shot over or the corker. The
sights were let. Against ale the adds, it gas still omen!

  He rat even fester, dashed ever the read -
- and mode it.

  Bet the doom was licked.

  "Ah, shut!" he explained.

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Source: afterword of his short story  "Off the Track":
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/offtrack.htm

      Pavel

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