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Other people's marginalia
Nov. 19th, 2012 08:56 pmThe 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"]
( They just get better behind the cut. )
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"]
( They just get better behind the cut. )
