[New-Poetry] About Finnegan About Gilbert About Fame

[Suzanne Burns]

On 9/15/06, JforJames at aol.com <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 9/15/2006 12:21:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> chris.lott at gmail.com writes:
> I don't believe in
> reading without a pencil and I don't believe in not marking up books
> unless they are going back to the library...
>
>
>
> Chris, I'm with you on this...unless the marking is completely marring the
> text, I feel the book is made better by marginal notes and underlining.
> It feels to me that I'm reading a well-loved (or provocative) book; and I'm
> interested in what was marked as compared to what I might mark as important
> or interesting and worth arguing over in the margins.
> Finnegan

One of the things I love best about buying old books is nfinding
marginalia.  It lets me experience another person's inner life.

Its reminds me a little of those old Medieval manuscripts where every
now and then the monk will take a break from his scrivening to write
in his elegant hand "This vellum is hairy."


Suzanne


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"Start with your identity, which is a combination of your assets and
what your friends mean when they discuss 'the trouble with you,'
polish that, and you have style."

--Quentin Crisp