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Marginalia, no.296
He was lucid, not with an everyday lucidity, the sort one finds acceptable, but on the contrary the sort of which one subsequently feels ashamed, perhaps because it confers on supposedly commonplace t… more →
The New Psalmanazar
Marginalia, no.296
wrote 1 day ago: He was lucid, not with an everyday lucidity, the sort one finds acceptable, but on the contrary the … more →
Pointing the finger, or, A handy guide to manicules
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wrote 1 day ago: A manicule, from the Latin maniculum or ‘little hand’, is a punctuation mark created by or for reade … more →
Reasons I Cannot Wear Skirts (2)
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wrote 2 days ago: (2) The Circle Skirt Remember that lovely red tiramisu dress I made to wear at Christmas but never w … more →
wrote 6 days ago: Elks at MGU, 1961. … more →
Reasons I Cannot Wear Skirts (1)
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wrote 1 week ago: (1) The Pencil Skirt I own three pencil skirts: two of which are black; one of which is grey pinstri … more →
on the way
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wrote 1 week ago: there is a day when the road neither comes nor goes, and the way is not a way but a place. -wendell … more →
Serious Reading
wrote 1 week ago: It’s probably natural, here in the 21st century, to fret over the future of literature — to worry th … more →
Walden Books
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wrote 1 week ago: Walden Books, 38 Harmood Street, London, NW1 8DP Covered in beautiful purple flowers and the overspi … more →
Saturday Marginalia- Gatsby Edition
wrote 1 week ago: Mark Sarvas at The Elegant Variation used to have an almost daily literary roundup on his book. It w … more →
The state of the book
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wrote 1 week ago: I read somewhere a lament for the dearth of journalism that takes the 30,000 foot view and provides … more →
Marginalia
wrote 1 week ago: “…the inevitability of the unification of the life of humanity as a result of those impe … more →
Marginalia
wrote 1 week ago: “It is the first and indispensable condition of human progress that a people shall be married … more →
City Lit Festival with George Saunders
wrote 2 weeks ago: By: Nathan Blanchard Volunteer Nathan ventures off from the Potomac River area, from which the Potom … more →
Marginalia, no.295
wrote 2 weeks ago: Catfish are basically swimming tongues. ~ Mary Roach, Gulp If your epidermis were covered in taste b … more →
Incunabula: cataloguing the earliest printed texts in the Cardiff Rare Books Collection
wrote 2 weeks ago: Work has now started on the cataloguing of our important collection of nearly 200 incunabula, the ea … more →
This Week on Amish Mafia
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wrote 3 weeks ago: This week on Amish Mafia: Jeremiah brings his Gun of the Hand to the Lancaster rumschpringa and says … more →
The contents of the book don't have value, the marginalia might
wrote 3 weeks ago: To answer that by way of illustration and example, I was giving a talk a few years ago to a group of … more →
Marginalia, no.294
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Others advocated the great elementary theory, which refers the construction of our globe and all tha … more →
Poetry From Art, Poetry With Art
wrote 3 weeks ago: Photo by Pascale Petit of the Tate Modern group working from Ebrahim El-Salahi’s ‘Reborn … more →
