A few greasy looking smearsand next to them, written in soft pencil-by a beautiful girl, I could tell,whom I would never meet-'Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love.'
The Most Beautiful thing about annotation is not only the rich history and vast range of emotions and passion yet that it is available to everyone and even in this example we capture history to be expressed through these annotations
Even Irish monks in their cold scriptoriajotted along the borders of the Gospelsbrief asides about the pains of copying,a bird singing near their window,or the sunlight that illuminated their page-anonymous men catching a ride into the futureon a vessel more lasting than themselves.
Annotations from my interpretation has been around far beyond more than we expect going back to when even before written language was created
Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers,Hands cupped around their mouths.'Absolutely,' they shoutto Duns Scotus and James Baldwin.'Yes.' 'Bull's-eye.' 'My man! 'Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation pointsrain down along the sidelines.
This is a prime example of the range of annotations some readers may be fanatics and really demonstrate and convey their enthusiasm and passion for the literature with their annotations
Students are more modestneeding to leave only their splayed footprintsalong the shore of the page.One scrawls 'Metaphor' next to a stanza of Eliot's.Another notes the presence of 'Irony'fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.
Annotations from what i am interpreting, seem to have a vast range of motives and comments these student annotations in particular seem to be very minimalistic.
I remember once looking up from my reading,my thumb as a bookmark,trying to imagine what the person must look likewhy wrote 'Don't be a ninny'alongside a paragraph in The Life of Emily Dickinson.
I believe this part of the poem is explaining and showcasing another tirade of annotations that may have been made even when reading such an impressive book about "The Life Of Emily Dickinson'
Sometimes the notes are ferocious,skirmishes against the authorraging along the borders of every pagein tiny black script.If I could just get my hands on you,Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien,they seem to say,I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.
I Think this is the one of the first annotations to come across some may be aggressive and sometimes may seem a bit hostile towards the author when expressing their feelings of what they may be reading