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Marginalia
This anecdotal study explores the marks readers leave behind in books as they read. Sometimes readers mourn what`s not present in the margin: Fermat`s last theorem is famously missing because he allegedly found the margins too small; sometimes they deplore what is: De Quincey admonished Wordsworth for opening pages with a dirty butter knife.

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\Mar`gi*na"li*a\, n. pl. [NL.]
Marginal notes.
 
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