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The future of marginalia
The NYT clearly has eyes only for the Newberry The New York Times published an article on Monday entitled “Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins.” I got really excited about it, especially since G. Thomas Tanselle and Heather Jackson were quoted. But it turned out to be more of a list [...]
Westinghouse
Today, I realized the elevator I was riding in predated Paul Rand’s identity redesign for Westinghouse Electric.
Description of a London printing office in 1834
The ceilings are black as printers’ ink with the candle-smoke of two or three generations, and the walls, save where they were polished to a greasy brown by the friction of the shoulder, were of the same color. The wind and the rain were patched out from the clattering casements and the rotting window-frames by [...]
Books I read in 2009
I was taking stock of my Daytum profile when I figured out how to limit by date. For those interested, here are the 59 books I read in 2009, with authors next to titles that might be common: A Confederacy Of Dunces A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court* A Fraction Of The Whole A [...]
