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words. 300 plays, where, see

detail (90ºcw, erasured) ex Mrs. Henry Pott (1833-1915), her Obiter Dicta of Bacon and Shakespeare on Manners, Mind, Morals (1900) : 300 University of California copy, digitized December 11, 2007 source scan (jpg)

its index

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for information on Mary Fearon Pott, see Alan Stewart, “The Case for Bacon,” in Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, eds., Shakespeare Beyond Doubt : Evidence, Argument, Controversy (2013) : 16-28 (25) and the (fascinating) wikpedia entry for her daughter Constance Mary Pott (1862–1957)

from a wayward search landing on “Imagination produces eloquence, rhetoric” 164-165

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showing creases / different creases and lines

ex asfaltics: more emphasis

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langen, langsam

spine detail Langenscheidt’s German-English / English-German Dictionary (Pocket Books pb, revised and enlarged 1970, 1973 printing)

all tagged lexicon all tagged slow all tagged spine

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abschied Madeline Kripke (1943-2020) *

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right down the alphabet

20200331, spine detail Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet (1946; Penguin pb 1658, 1961) from whose last pages the epigram and —

J., K., L., or M. For a second, I glimpse it. For an instant it is even quite clear.

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all tagged alphabet all tagged anguage all tagged spine a few tagged orange

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bars, sudden

first (upper) of three cyan islands and archipelagos, deposited at The New York Times (April 2, 2020) : B1 where they encounter these words in succession, on their way down the page —

market for a series of bars, sudden rate ing wire to get prices Tuesday coming days. many pressured precautions advised

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ex Keith Bradsher, “The Tortuous Path From Factory to Face” * Michael Corkery and Sapna Maheshwari, “Fearing for Health, Retail Workers Battle Bosses to Wear Masks” *

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exercises

spine detail, The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius (Mottola, trans., Doubleday Image, 1964)

The second prelude is the representation of the place.

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kind of a non sequitur

snow beyond, 20 January 2019

foreground paper, cover note to Rob Walker, “The Expensive Type / Why so many luxury fashion logos are choosing simplicity over standing out” in Bloomberg “Pursuits” (November 26, 2018) same article, different title, here

Luxury typography is kind of a non sequitur. — Peter Saville

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ólios

thin sheet, both sides used encountered in thinning/sorting process, February 2019 not (or only partially) shown: notes of travel in Northern Luzon (Aparri, January 1978); planning sketch of bookshelves

but this was impossible for one who could not throw anything away ex Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights (1979, NYRB reprint 2001)

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