Is there an absence of a logical link between 'I thought that was surely the first time I had ever seen such an obvious typographical error in, of all things, a simple title on a simple 78-rpm record.' and 'I thought it was the first time I'd seen such an error.'
I thought that was surely the first time I had ever seen such an obvious typographical error in, of all things, a simple title on a simple 78-rpm record.###I thought it was the first time I'd seen such an error.