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RE: Another version?

From: BUTCHER, Charles William <wb~at~ied.edu.hk>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:53:30 +0800
To: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>, "'chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar'" <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar>

Thanks.


                Bill

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                -----Original Message-----
                From: chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar
[mailto:chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar]
                Sent: 16 March 2000 12:56
                To: 'Jules Verne Forum'
                Subject: RE: Another version?

                Yes, Bill, I had found one more variant; it appears below as
B3. However, as I found the variants almost by chance, maybe there are more.
                Now let's compare all the text variants founded.

                Butcher's and all modern Spanish translations say A1, A2,
A3, A4, A5 variants.
                We know that the French source A is the book published in
1872.
                The old English translations say B1, B2, B3, B4, B5.
                However, one must consider also the old Spanish
translations:
                Roberto Guibourg's, Anonymous 1 and 2 say B1, A2, B3, A4,
A5.

                Firstly, we can eliminate the minor B4 variant as
irrelevant.
                Secondly, we can eliminate the B2 and B5 variants as
invented by Towle in order to erase all signs of the "Morning Chronicle" (a
newspaper not existent in 1872, as Butcher establishes in his Appendix).
                Then B1 and B3 variants in old English and Spanish editions
remain as the proof of the existence of a French source B.
                Now which is the source B? More researches are needed.

                These are all the text variants:
                Butcher:
                A1:
                'On foot?' cried the passengers in unison.
                'But how far is this station, then?' one of them asked.
                'Twelve miles, on the other side of the river.'
                'Twelve miles in the snow?' exclaimed Stamp W. Proctor.
                (Chapter 28)

                A2:
                'The Morning Chronicle assures us that he is a gentleman.'

                Now, as the Morning Chronicle had pointed out, there was in
fact very good reason to believe that the thief did not belong to any of the
known criminal gangs of England.

                This is the calculation made by the Morning Chronicle:
                (Chapter 3)

                A3:
                'Starting now.'
                'It's pure madness!' cried Andrew Stuart...
                (Chapter 3)

                A4:
                'Diamonds are trumps,' he said. 'Your lead, I believe, Mr
Stuart.'
                (Chapter 3)

                A5:
                The Times, the Standard, the Evening Star, the Morning
Chronicle, and twenty other large-circulation newspapers declared themselves
against Mr Fogg.
                (Chapter 4)


                Rogers:
                B1:
                "But it is only a mile from here," said one of the
passengers.
                "Yes, but it's on the other side of the river."
                "And can't we cross that in a boat?" asked the Colonel.
                "That's impossible. The creek is swollen from the rains.
It is a rapid, and we shall have to make a ten mile detour to the north to
find a ford."

                B2:
                "The Daily Telegraph says that he is a gentleman."

                There were real grounds for supposing, as the Daily
Telegraph said, that the thief did not belong to a professional band.

                Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph:

                B3:
                "At once. Only I warn you that I shall do it at your
expense."
                "It's absurd!" cried Stuart...
                 
                B4:
                "Diamonds are trumps: be so good as to play, gentlemen."

                B5:
                The Times, Standard, Morning Post, and Daily News, and
twenty other highly respectable newspapers declared themselves against Mr.
Fogg...


                Regards,

                Christian Sánchez
                chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar
                Rosario, Argentina
Received on Tue 21 Mar 2000 - 07:54:34 IST

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