Thanks. Need to read and digest—

Heh, sorry. Originals are paywalled so this is best alternative.

I remember he sort of threw up his hands and declared “You just need to get it.”

<psst> David Greetham’s Introduction to Textual Scholarship, which had just come out.

Jerome McGann made us buy a clothbound university press book for $60, an astronomical sum in 1990s money. It wasn’t just, and nowadays would be at least a minor social media scandal. Still, you can guess where this is going: the book has remained on my shelf and I go back to it not infrequently.

Though I think it’s hard to generalize, even amongst students in the same class as the same institution. For some there will be genuine hardship, and there should be options in place; for others not so much, and they should have the same opportunity we did to find satisfaction in building a library.

Maybe @subcontrarian.bsky.social has a perspective.

I actually never went very far down the cogsci rabbit hole, though MT and I did briefly overlap as colleagues here at Maryland.

That is so kind! Thank you. I will tell Rita.

Again, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

Yes, thank you, this is exactly what I was after. I will look up the Willis posthaste. Appreciated.

You don’t say.

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From what I understand, imitation of style is a fairly common writing workshop exercise. That’s not what’s happening here of course, but imitation is not necessarily a creative dead end.