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Marilee Scott 9:13 PM
Sunday, May 07, 2006
About Me
- Name: Marilee Scott
I live and paint in Brooklyn, NY. You can follow my work in the studio by visiting my Flickr stream. Email: my full name, no spaces, at gmail dot com.
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Previous Posts
- First, New York! Then...Nada.
- Really Tangible Assets.
- Water in Iran: Fragmentary Thoughts on Qanat
- What's the Opposite of Serendipity?
- NYC Strikes
- Convenient News
- Proactive Scapegoating?
- A Tale Between Two Articles
- No Longer So Sanguine As To Entertain Moral Arguments
- 2,067 Miles of This?
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5 Comments:
My ability to read the bindings of books from a distance are not what they used to be, but you appear to have more Oxford World Classics than Penguin Classics. I find that vaguely disturbing.
OUP in the field visible in that photo offers pretty excellent scholarship for price. That's not to say that Penguin is better represented in the non-visible fields, because it isn't.
Somewhere on someone's blog comments I'm on record saying I've found the notes and intros better in OUP than in Penguin editions, but somehow I've ended up with more of the latter. Of course the fields I study tend not to use texts that appear in either of those collections - for example, I could probably finish my dissertation without reading a work of fiction if I didn't want to, though I may pick up some of the political philosophy classics - but that's another story.
I know about ending up with non-preferential editions. I have five editions of one important, popularish primary text. It just gradually become important to me, and along the way, I piled up crappy, second-language, and insufficient editions of it.
That's what I now try to short-circuit intermediate steps by buying the most authoritative edition of anything I'm vaguely interested in. If it's not worth buying a proper edition, you'd better check it out of the library.
Deleted 'em, with all their wee inhabitants.
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