[Vwoolf] A minor mystery in G. Patton Wright's Mrs Dalloway edition

[Edward Mendelson]

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This is a question that is almost entirely a time-waster, but I'm 
posting in the hope that someone has a solution.

G. Patton Wright's edition of Mrs Dalloway includes an extensive list of 
variants in all editions published before 1990, including many that have 
no textual authority, such as his "E7," the 1964 reset edition in 
Penguin Modern Classics, scanned and online here in its 1972 impression:

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The mystery is this: Patton Wright lists perhaps a half-dozen variants 
in which the first-edition text is a word followed by a four-dot 
ellipsis, but the "variant" seems to be exactly the same. For example, 
one entry in his list (at the foot of his p. 195) reads:

142.20 music. . . . ]  music. . . . E7-8

There are similar entries for 136.29, 140.08, 161.27, and 169.17. 
Possibly I missed others. In every case, the two "variant" readings seem 
to be identical, and the texts also seem to be identical (in the 1925 
edition that Wright uses as his copy text and in the Penguin 
resetting).  The number of dots, and the spacing between the dots, seem 
to be the same in every case.

Again, this doesn't matter because the 1964 text has no authority, but I 
would be grateful to learn whether or not I'm missing something obvious.