A mad bibliographic explosion in the margins
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Semi-itinerant minstrel
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Intellect and romance triumph over brute force and cynicism! Or at least, according to Craig Ferguson and Doctor Who they do.
Me, I like the finer things in life (good books, good music, good food, and terrible movies) -- and also alarmingly loud buzzy historical wind instruments.
[By the way, the "mad bibliographic explosion in the margins" subtitle came from a talk by Emma Dillon, who used the phrase to describe a rampaging horde of book- and musical instrument-wielding marginal grotesques in one particular medieval manuscript.]
Me, I like the finer things in life (good books, good music, good food, and terrible movies) -- and also alarmingly loud buzzy historical wind instruments.
[By the way, the "mad bibliographic explosion in the margins" subtitle came from a talk by Emma Dillon, who used the phrase to describe a rampaging horde of book- and musical instrument-wielding marginal grotesques in one particular medieval manuscript.]
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