marginalia

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The interstitial collage elements play the role of footnotes, or more accurately, the marginalia of a slightly older, wiser reader revisiting a beloved book.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023

I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.

From The Verge • Mar. 4, 2022

All the while, Rumsfeld produced his proverbs, doodling mystic marginalia in the pages of history, reducing war and torture and other awful realities into blunt queries and gruff turns of phrase.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

It was hard to imagine any other teacher spending all that time jotting personalized marginalia.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2021

But these marginalia contradicted the text, because the ivy was silently eating away at the mortar between the stones and would one day bring the walls down.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz