Annotations from Errors in "The Curse of Xanadu," by Gary Wolf by Ted Nelson

Note that "Xanadu" is a registered U.S. trademark.

This is a new media era. The subject can talk back rather freely now. Let's try it.

My original intention here was to stick with the correction of hard-edged factual errors, but there are so many carefully concocted edge cases of marginal phrasing in "The Curse of Xanadu" that I may as well cover all that I see, in sequence. (A couple I dropped as unimportant.)

There are two big howlers of fact, my favorite being in the first sentence.

Unfortunately, because we do not have transclusive publishing, I cannot quote the material to which these are annotations would be a thorough copyright violation; thus I merely allude, and the reader must pick through the original.