The front end-papers are, to me, themost important. Some people reservethem for a fancy bookplate. I reservethem for fancy thinking.
This poke at "fancy" bookplates is a rhetorical call back to those who would attempt to weakly show only physical and not intellectual ownership by "pasting his bookplate inside the cover."
The front end-papers are, to me, themost important. Some people reservethem for a fancy bookplate. I reservethem for fancy thinking.
Was "fancy thinking" used in a pejorative sense prior to this article? Are subsequent uses of it poking fun of the parallelism (to fancy bookplates) which Adler sets up here?
the front endpapers are oftenthe most important. Some people reserve them for a fancybookplate.
Adler and Van Doren indicate that outlining the arguments and structure of a book on its endpapers is a better and higher measurement of one's ownership of a text compared to a bookplate which only indicates the lower level of "financial" ownership.