Thu. 01/19 - Edgar Allan Poe Wrote In His Books & You Should Too
A deep dive on marginalia. What is it, why should you do it, and how does it reveal the more joyful side of history’s most famous sadboy, Edgar Allan Poe? All that and more in this extended love letter to writing in books.
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Links:
Edgar Allan Poe on the Joy of Marginalia and What Handwriting Reveals about Character (The Marginalian)
Marginalia by Edgar Allan Poe
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation (Literary Hub)
Historical Figures who’d be outrageous online? (r/AskHistory)…
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