The other week on the way in to school I happened to be on the same subway car with a French colleague, who became irate when he saw me using a pencil to take notes in a library book from our school.
"You do not know," he said, "that I have yelled at other for that reason!"
I then defended my position, saying that it was erasable, but I only made educated comments, and that it improved the reading experience of others when attentive.
I also he said that he was behind the times, and that post-modern polyphony was here to stay, but he wasn't convinced.
I later texted my one Czech lit prof friend to find out if she ever wrote in books -
I've been guilty of that.
- she replied.
I then asked if she ever reprimanded anyone for writing in books -
Only within the pages of the book.
- she replied.
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it is not your book -- don't write in it.
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