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TIME.com ON AOL For more on the Inauguration, including a historical photo essay as well as additional behind-the-scenes photographs and audio commentary on Clinton's last days in office, go to time.com
...interesting to learn from Jackson's book ON WHICH THIS ESSAY IS MARGINALIA, I SUPPOSE, that friends would deliberately lend Coleridge their books, knowing he would mark them up endlessly. Thus, the lenders would be getting back a book improved by Coleridge. [Unless Coleridge were high on drugs...
...point AT LAST is that whatever is put in the margins in some way enhances the center by deflating certainty and that this infinite operation makes up who we are. For example, I may have got everything in this essay all wrong. NO KIDDING! I may have got my life all wrong. DON'T MAKE ME CRY! And so I may have to start all over again and fill up the margins YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF SPACE until I run out of space. [FOR THIS I CANCELLED MY SUBSCRIPTION TO MEN'S HEALTH...
...Browns have been a strong presence in my life ever since, offering me a chance to bore my teachers with Browns minutiae, and illuminating the vicissitudes of life. The first essay I recall writing in elementary school was a lengthy discussion of their post-WWII creation and exciting 1950 NFL Championship. Then, as an eight-year-old in 1981, I remember crying at school the day after Brian Sipe was intercepted in the end zone when the team was a short field goal from the AFC Championship game. When the 49ers won it all the next year I was jealous...
...three years, the Cleveland Browns lay dormant. For a short time I rooted for the ex-Browns who now played for the Ravens, but as their number dwindled, my interest faded. I took a breather from football fandom, although when it was time to write my main application essay for medical school, I looked to the Browns for inspiration. Even while absent, the Brownies were there for me, helping me, through their own battered past, find words to express where I had been and what I wanted...