Well now I, too, am mad about the Odyssey movie

But I loved spending time with her, and all her people!

On the book‘s last page she signs her name: Mary McDonald

This job, “Admirall of the Red” gives us a clue as to when the annotator lived: this position (wikipedia tells me) came into being in 1805

… and on subsequent pages, always on the right-hand margins, the same hand has written other professions: “a chaise-maker,” “a whale fisher” -

Yesterday, nearing the end of a magical library fellowship, I called up The Rules of Civility, a conduct book written originally in French but very popular in Restoration England. Curiously someone has written “A Tanner” in the right-hand margin…

further contact

I have been browsing AL Daily ever since I discovered the joy—the necessity—of wasting time on the internet at my sad, gray, post-college office job. And now look! 2003 me would be proud

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“I know … But even so.”

Did not expect to be called out by and then tear up at an endnote about the Iliad’s list of ships