Even Irish monks in their cold scriptoria
The author is using a reference to Irish monks to compare to college students. The author is exaggerating here to make his point more evident.
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would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head
The author is using imagery to make a point about people who annotate every single thing in a piece of literature. This technique is not effective and often times the annotations are reiterations of what the author has written.
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