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VOLUME ONE(Selected Anonymous Marginalia

Edited by Liam Agran

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VOLUME ONE (Selected Anonymous Marginalia) Edited by Liam Agrani

Copyright 2010

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Acknowledgments

The author wishes to thank Geoffrey Gatza for his interest and support, as wellas the editors of Bathhouse and Beard of Bees, in which a number of these

pieces previously appeared.


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Table of Contents

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Greek Lyric PoetryPublished In 1993 By Oxford University Press .......................................................13

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Gerard ManleyHopkins: Poems And Prose Edited By W. H. Gardner And Published In 1970 ByPenguin Books, Ltd.....................................................................................................14

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Theodore DreisersSister Carrie Published In 1957 By Sagamore Press And Previously Owned IreneSchulaner ......................................................................................................................15

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of The Rise Of SilasLapham By William Dean Howells, Published By Signet In 1980 And PreviouslyOwned By Jean Carol Cuscio ....................................................................................18

Transcription Of Marginalaia Found In A 1963 Copy Of Robert Henrysons PoemsPublished By Oxford University Press And Formerly Owned By John Collins.21

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of The Poems Of JohnMilton Published In 1953 The Ronald Press ............................................................24

Transcription Of Marginalaia Found In The Minor Poems Of The SelectedWorks Of Milton Edited By Maynard Mack And Published In 1950 By PrenticeHall ...............................................................................................................................29

Transcription Of Marginalaia Found In The Paradise Lost Of The SelectedWorks Of Milton Edited By Maynard Mack And Published In 1950 By PrenticeHall ...............................................................................................................................32

Transcription Of Marginalaia Found In A 1966 Copy Of John Lygates Poems,Published By Oxford University Press And Previously Owned By John Collins33

Complete Transcription Of Marginalia Found In J.S Copy Of Short Walks InConnecticut Published By The Pequat Press, 1968..................................................34

Transcription Of Marginalaia Found On The Cover Of A 1962 Printing Of SamuelTaylor Coleridges Biographia Literaria, From Everymans Library.....................35

Transcription Of Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Less Than One, The SelectedEssays Of Jospeh Brodsky, Published By Fsg In 1986 And Purchased In A UsedBookstore In Massachusetts .......................................................................................36


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Transcription Of Marginalia Found In Cyril Connolly: Journal And MemoirPublished By Ticknor & Fields In New York In 1984 And Found With The FictionAt J.M.S House .......................................................................................................... 38

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A 1984 Copy Of Henry JamessPortrait Of A Lady Published By Penguin Classics ................................................ 40

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Franz Kafkas The Trial(Translation By Breon Mitchell) Published By Shocken In 1998........................... 42

Transcription Of Writing Found On The Inside Cover Of A Copy Of The Trial ByFranz Kafka, Published By Shocken Books In 1988 ...............................................43

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A 1988 Shocken Printing Of TheTrial By Franz Kafka .................................................................................................. 44

Complete Transcription Of Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Sidhartha By HermanHesse Published In 1952 By New Directions And Owned By The Stonington

Highschool Library, Pawcatuck, Ct (Last Taken Out By Amanda Kenyon InSeptember Of 1997) .................................................................................................... 48

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of George GissingsThe Odd Woman Published By W. W. Norton And Co. In 1977......................... 49

Transcription Of Marginalia Found In A Copy Of The Selected Poems Of John GayPublished By Carcanet In 1979 .................................................................................50

Complete Transcription Of Marginalaia In A Copy Of The Varieties Of ReligiousExperience By William James, Published In 1914 By Longmans, Green And Co.And Presently Owned By A Small Library In Connecticut...................................51

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Jane Van Lawick-Goodalls In The Shadow Of Man Published In 1971 By Houghton Mifflin ......52

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Virgils AneidPublished By Penguin Classics In 1985 And Previously Owned By James Behr. 53

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Dantes Inferno(Trans. John Ciardi) Published In 1954 By The New American Library ............. 55

Complete Transcription Of The Marginalia Found In A 1975 Edition Of How To

Do Things With Words By J.L. Austin (Found In A Western MassachusettsBookstore) ................................................................................................................... 57

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Donald BarthelmesSnow White Published In 1972 By Antheneum And Previously Owned By Andre A.Sackner ......................................................................................................................... 58


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Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Virginia WoolfsTo The Lighthouse Published By Harcourt Brace And Owned For Some TimeBy A Student At St. Johns University......................................................................61

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Platos TimaeusPublished By The Library Of Liberal Arts In 1959 And Previously Owned By BobCooperrida ...................................................................................................................65

Transcription Of Selected Margnialia In A Copy Of Platos Phaedo (From TheCollected Plato, Published By Bollingen, 1961) And Belonging To The StoningtonPublic Library, Stonington, Ct...................................................................................67

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of The 1973 OxfordEdition Of Sir Philip Sidneys Poems, Previously Owned By Samantha Stead ....70

Complete Transcription Of The Marginalaia Found In A Copy Of The SelectedEpigrams Of Martial, Published In 1963 By Indiana University Press AndPreviously Owned By Allison M. Scott....................................................................72

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia From A Copy Of The Collected WorksOf Goethe Published In Stuttgart In 1881, Purchased By A Mr. Spalding Of 92North Middle (In 1893), And Found By My Mothers Friend Margaret Ellen ....75

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of The 1995 Prentice HallEdition Of The Visual Arts: A History By Hugh Honour & John Fleming ........78

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Classical LiteraryCriticism Published By Penguin In 2000 ..................................................................81

Transcription Of Marginalaia Found In A 1963 Copy Of Robert HenrysonsPoems, Published By Oxford University Press And Formerly Owned By JohnCollins. .........................................................................................................................84

Transcription Of Selected Marginalia Found In A Copy Of Vladimir Mayakovsky'sThe Bedbug And Other Poems Published In 1960 By Meridian Books AndPreviously Owned By John Wise ..............................................................................87


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TRANSCRIPTION OF SELECTED MARGINALIA FOUND IN A COPYOF GREEK LYRIC POETRY PUBLISHED IN 1993 BY OXFORDUNIVERSITY PRESS

p 9 speaks of

being scaredearlier

shows several

sides of

personality

p 31 adv. tothose that

respect do

measure

p 42 old age

will

catch upto

everyone

p 53 dont accept

tyranny


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TRANSCRIPTION OF SELECTED MARGINALIA FOUND IN A COPYOF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: POEMS AND PROSE EDITED BYW. H. GARDNER AND PUBLISHED IN 1970 BY PENGUIN BOOKS,LTD

p 27 white

birches

feathers

p 28 pussy willows

p 31 his soul in his body

p 32 the body will rest on the soul as the

shadow of a rainbow on a meadow


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TRANSCRIPTION OF SELECTED MARGINALIA FOUND IN A COPYOF THEODORE DREISERS SISTER CARRIE PUBLISHED IN 1957 BYSAGAMORE PRESS AND PREVIOUSLY OWNED IRENE SCHULANER

p 6 the salesman

or the farmersdaughter?

p 7 hope

illusion

v.

reality

p 8 not

unpleasant

p 17 doesnt know what to expect

p 46 instinct

p 176 sells

his

soul

p 206 seems

strangethe cause

didnt

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his

married

state

before

p 208 how

intimate

p 210 alone

p 227 framed

bychance

p 238 unconsciousness

p 239 definition of mind

p 252 mansaloneness

p 262 aloneness

p 269 ah, if only she could

be an actress

p 271 21


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p 277 obvious

p 279 always the

if sentences

p 300 paralysis of the will

p 329 the

tragicview

p 374 alone

p 378 another

if

thatfailed


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TRANSCRIPTION OF SELECTED MARGINALIA FOUND IN A COPYOF THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS,PUBLISHED BY SIGNET IN 1980 AND PREVIOUSLY OWNED BYJEAN CAROL CUSCIO

p 9 mother

p 16 wife

nature

p 20 looked at

p21 a made thing

self-conscious

p 26 the daughter

p 29 light

p 30 their social dilemma

p 42 nature

p 44 quiet / morality

p 46 marriage

p 49 myth


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p57 $

p 62 what traveling can do

p 63 ha!

p 68 nature

p 75 there was an accident

on his boat once

p 82 self-consciousness

p 86 superstitious

p 88 superstitious

p 107 idleness

p 120 ha!

p 123 passive

p 161 like a play

p 169 fashion

p 170 ha!


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p 171 etiquette

p 175 ha!

p 193 oh!

p 203 wow!

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