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Passage read by David Mitchell not in US ebook
Crayboy
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Sep 27, 2013 08:37AM
I just listened to the World Book Club interview with David Mitchell. In it he reads some extracts that I did not remember reading in the book. On specifically concerned Somni. ( Partial transcription )
"And when did yoona 939 actually violate a catechism in public? During month 8 Yoona broke catechism 5. This forbids a server to address a diner uninvited. A mother consumer and her young son ordered Seaweed doodlenoos. But the shoot was peak jammed so Yoona prayed them to wait. The bored boy asked why some servers looked exactly alike. His mother explained we were grown in the same womb tank, like radishes in his biology class. The boy the asked what womb tank he had been grown in. Two straws queried his mother, blushing slightly or three. The boy persisted. Who looked after the fabricants babies while we worked here. Fabricants don't have babies replied the mother."
I searched the Kindle ebook for "babies" "radish" "seaweed" and "catechism", none of these searches found the passage. So, is the Kindle ebook abridged? Maybe it's the US edition.
I have now reread the Sonmi sections - this passage is not in the US Kindle ebook. I have requested a paper copy to check that. I have also written to the BBC asking if they know which edition David Mitchell read from.
If anyone has a UK copy and can check for this passage I would appreciate it.
I have now confirmed that the UK edition contains this section, and that the US version does not.
"And when did yoona 939 actually violate a catechism in public? During month 8 Yoona broke catechism 5. This forbids a server to address a diner uninvited. A mother consumer and her young son ordered Seaweed doodlenoos. But the shoot was peak jammed so Yoona prayed them to wait. The bored boy asked why some servers looked exactly alike. His mother explained we were grown in the same womb tank, like radishes in his biology class. The boy the asked what womb tank he had been grown in. Two straws queried his mother, blushing slightly or three. The boy persisted. Who looked after the fabricants babies while we worked here. Fabricants don't have babies replied the mother."
I searched the Kindle ebook for "babies" "radish" "seaweed" and "catechism", none of these searches found the passage. So, is the Kindle ebook abridged? Maybe it's the US edition.
I have now reread the Sonmi sections - this passage is not in the US Kindle ebook. I have requested a paper copy to check that. I have also written to the BBC asking if they know which edition David Mitchell read from.
If anyone has a UK copy and can check for this passage I would appreciate it.
I have now confirmed that the UK edition contains this section, and that the US version does not.
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I don't remember it either. I also red an electronic version.
Thanks for calling attention to this fact. I always thought that versions were the same, no matter which edition was being read. Particularly surprised that there would be a discrepancy like this between UK and US versions.
Crayboy
The whole Somni section is very different between US and UK versions. It is almost as if one country got an early draft.
I have a hardcover US version and I don't remember this either. Weird.
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