marginalia

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Marginalia can record boredom, distraction, and mental drift, or even the refusal to read: in my used copy of John Milton’s “Comus,” the text is covered in elaborate calligraphic “Z”s, to denote snoring.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

Marginalia is where we let our hair down and say what we really think, but they can also develop into a kind of shorthand.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2017

In his poem "Marginalia," Billy Collins, the former American poet laureate, wrote about how a previous reader had stirred the passions of a boy just beginning high school and reading "The Catcher in the Rye."

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2011

Marginalia in the great sweep of international affairs, of course, but such items were priorities for the White House staff as it planned last week's double date for Anwar, Jihan, Ronnie and Nancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Essays and Marginalia, and Poems, with a memoir by his brother Derwent, appeared in 1851.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various