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...notes and inscriptions. In the introduction to her recent study Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, H.J. Jackson mentions the scene in Wuthering Heights where the narrator, Lockwood, flips through one of Catherine’s books and finds “pen-and-ink commentary…covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left.” I have rarely been lucky enough to find so heavily-annotated a used book, but—even after reading brief and inane notes as “God needs to forgive Hal himself!!!” I have felt...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Annotate This | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

...speech, Whittington said “there is no greater happiness than to taste one morsel of the truth...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rain Drenches Commencement | 6/28/2002 | See Source »

...speech, Socrates said “there is no greater happiness than to taste one morsel of the truth...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rain Soaks Graduates at Morning Commencement Exercises | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...variety, the effete charms of the a cappella circuit. To many undergraduates these activities seem like perfectly acceptable ways to pass the time between the early evening reruns of “Third Rock From The Sun” and bedtime. These poor individuals are sorely misguided: Every morsel of octopus sushi consumed and every Stravinsky Wind Octet ticket sold confirm the sad pretensions of Harvard’s student body...

Author: By Anthony S. A. freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...official formalities to find my girlfriend's xiao gugu, or little auntie, waiting for us. It's after 9 p.m. but Xiao Gugu, a high-school Chinese literature teacher and staunch epicure, has plotted out an evening of eating. (When flying to Taipei, don't bother touching a morsel on the plane.) We head to Liaoning Street in northeast Taipei where vendors famous for their seafood concoctions line the crowded alley. Xiao Gugu waves us over to a woman who is ladling taro batter onto a round grill. We watch as she nonchalantly cracks two eggs over the clear taro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Wanderings: Get Away To Taipei | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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