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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351271" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Marginalia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes the notes are ferocious,<br>skirmishes against the author<br>raging along the borders of every page<br>in tiny black script.<br>If I could just get my hands on you,<br>Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien,<br>they seem to say,<br>I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Other comments are more offhand, dismissive -<br>'Nonsense.' 'Please! ' 'HA! ! ' -<br>that kind of thing.<br>I remember once looking up from my reading,<br>my thumb as a bookmark,<br>trying to imagine what the person must look like<br>why wrote 'Don't be a ninny'<br>alongside a paragraph in The Life of Emily Dickinson.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Students are more modest<br>needing to leave only their splayed footprints<br>along the shore of the page.<br>One scrawls 'Metaphor' next to a stanza of Eliot's.<br>Another notes the presence of 'Irony'<br>fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers,<br>Hands cupped around their mouths.<br>'Absolutely,' they shout<br>to Duns Scotus and James Baldwin.<br>'Yes.' 'Bull's-eye.' 'My man! '<br>Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points<br>rain down along the sidelines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if you have managed to graduate from college<br>without ever having written 'Man vs. Nature'<br>in a margin, perhaps now<br>is the time to take one step forward.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have all seized the white perimeter as our own<br>and reached for a pen if only to show<br>we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages; <br>we pressed a thought into the wayside,<br>planted an impression along the verge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even Irish monks in their cold scriptoria<br>jotted along the borders of the Gospels<br>brief asides about the pains of copying,<br>a bird signing near their window,<br>or the sunlight that illuminated their page-<br>anonymous men catching a ride into the future<br>on a vessel more lasting than themselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you have not read Joshua Reynolds,<br>they say, until you have read him<br>enwreathed with Blake's furious scribbling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the one I think of most often,<br>the one that dangles from me like a locket,<br>was written in the copy of Catcher in the Rye<br>I borrowed from the local library<br>one slow, hot summer.<br>I was just beginning high school then,<br>reading books on a davenport in my parents' living room,<br>and I cannot tell you<br>how vastly my loneliness was deepened,<br>how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed,<br>when I found on one page</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A few greasy looking smears<br>and next to them, written in soft pencil-<br>by a beautiful girl, I could tell,<br>whom I would never meet-<br>'Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Billy+Collins">Billy Collins</a><div class=q>
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skirmishes against the author
raging along the borders of every page
in tiny black script.
If I could just get my hands on you,
Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien,
they seem to say,
I would bolt the door and be..."></div>
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