You know I keep forgetting how important and idea annotation is… how it has a direct relation to both the blog (an annotation elsewhere) and blogs’ sidebars… and comments…
…while the marginalia are deliberately pencilled, because the mind of the reader wishes to unburthen itself of a thought;€“however flippant€“however silly€“however trivial€“still a thought indeed, not merely a thing that might have been a thought in time, and under more favorable circumstances. In the marginalia, too, we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly€“boldly- originally€“with abandonnement€“without conceit€“much after the fashion of Jeremy Taylor, and Sir Thomas Browne, and Sir William Temple, and the anatomical Burton, and that most logical analogist, Butler, and some other people of the old day, who were too full of their matter to have any room for their manner, which, being thus left out of question, was a capital manner, indeed,€“a model of manners, with a richly marginalic air.
