The Disappearing M

This review of the book my publishers like to call ZoM appeared before the book is even out - and before I had seen a copy of it. It - the review - popped into my inbox this morning, before I'd had a chance to go down to the local PO to pick up my six author's copies. Looks good ... I already knew, from an email the other day, that an inexplicable error had appeared on page 18; somehow, nobody knows how, the 'm' in Gilgamesh had disappeared. I checked back on the last proof I saw, and the 'm' is there; ditto at the publisher's end; but now it is gone. Here's the sentence: It’s curious too that Gilga(m)esh reaches the Waters of Death by travelling east, towards and then past the place where the sun rises: the Egyptians, the Greeks, and all subsequent major cultures in the Western tradition locate the land of the dead in the other direction, where the sun sets. Actually I quite like the version Gilgaesh; and, inter alia, wonder if in fact the errant 'm' wasn't itself eaten by the waters of death.

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