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Marginalia

Minor Marginalia

From writings left behind by visitors to the Oakland Public Library. Dear Librarian: Those three kids over there are making too much noise and I can’t read and my friend…

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Paperback to the Future
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From Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader, a collection of essays published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The other day I was asked a question of fact…

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American Scolder
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From annotations written by John Stuart Mill on his personal copies of the first editions of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays, which were published in two volumes, in 1841 and 1844.…

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Marginalia, by John Adams
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