Comments on: Easter Egg Salad http://mindofwinter.org/2005/03/27/84/ A forum for discussing poems and poetry Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:48:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: ophelia http://mindofwinter.org/2005/03/27/84/#comment-348 ophelia Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:36:47 +0000 http://mindofwinter.org/2005/03/27/84/#comment-348 Haven't seen many notes in margins? I see them all the time when I buy used books for school! I've left quite a few in books sold back as well. Haven’t seen many notes in margins? I see them all the time when I buy used books for school! I’ve left quite a few in books sold back as well.

]]> By: Michael http://mindofwinter.org/2005/03/27/84/#comment-324 Michael Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:36:25 +0000 http://mindofwinter.org/2005/03/27/84/#comment-324 I'm leaving for Oregon in a few short hours, so longer comments will have to wait 'til I return, but: so far as I know, I have never written in a book, even my own. Perhaps I fetishize the material book, but I also don't think it could help me much, and I doubt anyone else could make sense of anything I might write. I have ventured to take some short notes on a note card while reading through a book or two, but when after some time has passed I return to review the card, I have found I share so few of the sympathies I once had with the passages that my previous sentiments just strike me as odd. "My today refutes my yesterday..." I'm afraid I would end up saying little more than "Bullseye" or "My man!" next to otherwise unintelligible paragraphs, without being able to give any clue as to why I found them moving or salient. I'm reading Stendhal's treatise on love right now, and he has some choice comments about marginalia; I'll try to dig them up when I return. I’m leaving for Oregon in a few short hours, so longer comments will have to wait ’til I return, but: so far as I know, I have never written in a book, even my own. Perhaps I fetishize the material book, but I also don’t think it could help me much, and I doubt anyone else could make sense of anything I might write. I have ventured to take some short notes on a note card while reading through a book or two, but when after some time has passed I return to review the card, I have found I share so few of the sympathies I once had with the passages that my previous sentiments just strike me as odd. “My today refutes my yesterday…” I’m afraid I would end up saying little more than “Bullseye” or “My man!” next to otherwise unintelligible paragraphs, without being able to give any clue as to why I found them moving or salient. I’m reading Stendhal’s treatise on love right now, and he has some choice comments about marginalia; I’ll try to dig them up when I return.

]]> By: admin http://mindofwinter.org/2005/03/27/84/#comment-323 admin Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:18:00 +0000 http://mindofwinter.org/2005/03/27/84/#comment-323 <blockquote> <b>Brian says:</b> Out of curiosity, what became of the ability to create new categories? It seems to me that Billy Collins could use one. </blockquote> Sorry about that. The new WordPress version tightened some security controls, and I didn't notice the change. It should be fixed now. I also went ahead and created the category. Let me know if you have any other problems as well... the program is pretty customizable.

Brian says:
Out of curiosity, what became of the ability to create new categories? It seems to me that Billy Collins could use one.

Sorry about that. The new WordPress version tightened some security controls, and I didn’t notice the change. It should be fixed now. I also went ahead and created the category. Let me know if you have any other problems as well… the program is pretty customizable.

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