What follows is a list of some things I found objectionable in chapter four of Wandering Significance. I actually found more things objectionable than appear in this list: for instance, the use of "variegated" on p. 177, or of "ersatz" on p 159. But the former is, I suppose, not really out of line even if my preference is to reserve the word for contexts involving color, and, well, and I'm also omitting the latter and generally other word-choice thingumbobs.
149: "their" should be "its" following "a body". 154: "affected" should be "effected". 155: the period should be outside the parenthesis. 155: "context" should be "content". 156: strike the comma in "Hertz,". 157: "acumulation" should be "accumulation". 164: "equations to the left" should be "equations to the right". 172: "2!" should be "n!". 172: "5.3.2" should be "5.4.3.2". 172: "1!" should be "n!". 173: "1/2!" should be "/n!" (this isn't even consistently mistaken!). 177: "lacuna" should be either "lacunae" or "lacunas" (Wilson would probably take the former). 178: "they support" should be "it supports" (or perhaps "scientific theorizing" should be "scientific theories"). 178: "make believe" should be "make-believe". 178: "filagree" should be "filigree". (The former spelling seems to be catching on, but I don't care LA LA LA.) 181: insert a comma after "demonstrates". 194: "incidently" should be "incidentally". 197: "trouble making" should be "trouble-making". 198: "Niels Bohr-like" would please me more with an en dash than with a hyphen. 199: "even handedly" should be "even-handedly". 200: "language twisting" should be "language-twisting". 203: "discrete" should be "discreet". 209: "filagree" again. 211: "incidently" again. 218: THE REASON ISN'T FUCKING BECAUSE.
Here, to balance things out, is something that caused me extreme pleasure: there is a pointless allusion to Omar Khayyam on p 211: This complicated story represents a proper description of our fluid's condition, because it takes a period of time before the pressures on each side of the rejoined surfaces can equalize, despite the fact that the knife, having sliced, has moved on
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