After the last mega crit, I realised something...
That I titled Poe's house as 'North Amity Road' when really it's 'Amity Street'.
And there's nothing I can do because it's already been printed. There are no more print bookings.
I could go and get it printed at a business printers in Leeds but that would cost a lot and it would just cause me more stress to re-print.
I've been debating for the last two weeks whether to admit to this mistake or just to brush it under the carpet. Everyone I've spoken to about it has told me to forget about it and pretend I didn't notice, that no one else will notice and that it doesn't matter, but that's not how my lovely little anxiety worryhead works. No, no, no. I KNOW ABOUT IT, so it matters. It's been niggling away at me.
So I have to do something about it.
OR - it could make sense in that I altered the truth. It's not an accurate representation of Poe's house, or Poe, etc. It's an interpretation of his world and his home, I even set it in a woodland scene rather than the city of Baltimore so it's not geographically correct anyway. It's based on truth... the characters, the house and the furniture all are but they're not precise or designed to be so. They're made to be my version, my printed pictures in response to Edgar's haunting works.
Perhaps Amity Road is almost a parody of Amity Street - an alternative universe... a parallel reality in which things are similar but not quite as they should be (a science fiction plot even Poe himself would devour).
BUT AM I JUST MAKING EXCUSES FOR MYSELF HERE? I didn't choose to title it 'Amity Road' instead of 'Amity Street' on purpose. It was a mistake.
Solution:
I've digitally amended the document anyway. SB2 was about PRINTED PICTURES, and that is where my attention was poured. I printed pictures, this is a tiny error in the text that doesn't really matter, but if it was to be sold in the gift shop at the Poe Museum, it could then be reprinted from this document to make geographical sense.
No comments:
Post a Comment