TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g., siphon/syphon, sunlighted/sun-lighted, wrist-watch/wrist watch, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation fixes: quotation mark pairings/nestings, and a few missing periods.
[Chapter X/§ 3]
(“that only a Voice has spoken, Yet…” he shrugged…) change the comma to a period.
[Chapter XVI/§ 3]
Change “I still had a half-smoked ciagrette between my fingers” to cigarette.
[Chapter XVII/§ 3]
“a pair of such beautiful eyes as I had mever met with in man” to never.
[Chapter XXI/§ 1]
“whom I did not find it necessay to drug” to necessary.
[Chapter XXII/§ 1]
“Before me, at the doot of a declivity, were twin towers” to foot.
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