So much depends upon “the so-called ‘chancery double,’” “a folded sheet of prescribed dimensions and format,” “perhaps the most indispensable requisite of the Austrian civil and military administration”:
Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity, trans. Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt (New York: New York Review Books, 2006).
I would like to know what those “so-called ‘guides’” looked like. They likely bear little resemblance to the present-day shitajiki.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
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