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The following discrepancy was not addressed in by J.
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>Morris ["Signs and Symbols and
Signs." The Nabokovian, Spring 1994, 32, pp. 24-28.]:

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In the penultimate sentence of "Signs and Symbols" [Vintage, Stories p
603], one of the eloquent labels reads "beech plum".  In the May 15,
1948 New Yorker, "Symbols and Signs", it reads "beach plum".


Either 1] the New Yorker fact-checker 'corrected' a 'mistake' in the
manuscript [beeches bear nuts; beach plums grow on an unrelated shrub;
BeechNut made the jellies] OR, 2] Nabokov decided to forego an
additional editorial squabble and accept the change pro tempore; OR 3]
the Vintage version is a typographer's slip.


I like answer number 2.     Can someone shed light on this?


-Sandy Drescher