Other people's marginalia
Nov. 19th, 2012 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heart_in_the_marginsThe first thing you learn in buying used books is that other people's marginalia is ridiculous. Especially undergraduate marginalia.
A few cases-in-point, from my Oxford edition of the major works of Byron, which is mostly clean except for some very concentrated blue-pen marginalia around the "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte":
[apparently, it's "about great disillusionment" and Elba was a "Mediterranian (sic) Alcatraz"]
["looking back at Napoleon's reign, it wasn't that great"]
And, the one that takes the cake, an annotation of Byron's "Beppo":
[Dandy: "AKA Cavelier (sic) / technical 'Austin Powers'"]
(Unfortunately I can't just submit this post in lieu of the reading response on the first canto of Don Juan which I actually have to finish before I go to sleep tonight.)
A few cases-in-point, from my Oxford edition of the major works of Byron, which is mostly clean except for some very concentrated blue-pen marginalia around the "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte":
[apparently, it's "about great disillusionment" and Elba was a "Mediterranian (sic) Alcatraz"]
["looking back at Napoleon's reign, it wasn't that great"]
And, the one that takes the cake, an annotation of Byron's "Beppo":
[Dandy: "AKA Cavelier (sic) / technical 'Austin Powers'"]
(Unfortunately I can't just submit this post in lieu of the reading response on the first canto of Don Juan which I actually have to finish before I go to sleep tonight.)
