Word: marginalia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Back in high school, you were the note-taking shit. You wrote marginalia better than Dryden or Wolfe. When you cracked Of Mice and Men, your great English teacher knew you were college material. In those days, your scribbles were pure gold and your friends cheated off your underlines...
...with the words of my senile yet seemingly credible eighth grade math teacher Mrs. Kelly, I'd have to agree that "the more senses you bring into the learning process, the more fruitful will be the learning." Marking up textbooks, thus, is not a malicious act of destruction. Rather, marginalia are a personal art form wherein highlighting, underlining and even doodling trigger specific parts of your brain. The fact remains that we don't just remember ideas; we remember colors, tastes and sounds. Bet you still remember those magenta koolats you wore to the 6th grade dance. For shit...
...play, but unfortunately that nuance did not come out in Jones' reading. If the audience came expecting the kind of letters one might mark up for a literature seminar, by Keats or by Rilke, it instead received letters that walked the line between insomniac remembrances and housewifish marginalia...
...those who invariably tote around a copy of The Fountainhead--rife with the requisite pithy marginalia--will savor this lecture presented by the Harvard Objectivist Club. Dr. Gary Hull will speak about "Neo-Puritan Assault on Sex and Pleasure"-- offering a wonderfully diametrically alternative to the excessive, hedonistic pleasures of CityStep's Annual Ball. Why would anyone dance the night away in unnecessarily opulent getups when one could consider, instead, "the fusion of Plato, Christianity and Kantian - inspired nihilism"? Gosh...
Meanwhile, the White House provided the Senate Banking Committee last week with a glimpse of privileged documents, including a photocopy of a Dec. 20, 1993, New York Times editorial with curious presidential marginalia. The editorial, which chastises Clinton for not cooperating with the Whitewater investigation, mentions Beverly Bassett Schaefer, whom then Governor Clinton appointed to the agency that oversees savings and loan associations in Arkansas. According to committee sources, the President drew an arrow from Schaefer's name and scrawled, in a reference to his 1992 campaign, "This is important to be on top of. Bassett did a good...