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Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?

And it grows increasingly clear that the document in Voth’s hands has itself been “doctored”—emended, rectified, ardently ministered to, but also violated.

“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”

In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.

Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.