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What would you call an error, where the author describes something in a way that makes no sense in a later context (well, except bad writing...)? I was reading an urban fantasy book where the author describes someone as wearing a suit with frayed seams two sizes too small for him. Later in the book, the character is described as growing in size and sprouting spikes when angry - if the suit were too small for him to begin with, it would simply be torn apart, so the only way it makes sense if the character actually had a suit too large for him in his normal form. I would imagine an editor would have caught that kind of a lack of logic - though given the genre, logical discrepancies are often par for the course...
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