Bagatelle

I discover a mistake in the binding of Paul Barolsky's rather effete Walter Pater's Renaissance: a quire has been inverted, pp. 27-42. At the bottom of p. 26, and continuing upside down at the top of p. 27 (facing p. 43), we read, 'But Pater's is also, antithetically, a romantic architecture analogous to that of Renaissance France, where one "often finds a true poetry, as in those strangely twisted staircases of the châteaux of the / country of the Loire, as if it were intended that among their odd turnings the actors in a theatrical mode of life might pass each other unseen."'


From the inverted bottom of p. 42, righting himself again on p. 43, Barolsky remarks, following Pater, 'At the outset of this journey of the mind, consciousness first manifests itself / as Abelard. He lives in "dreamy tranquility," in "a world something like shadows"—an "uncertain twilight."'

Can this Escheresque transposition possibly have been intentional?