I recognized the name Richard Macksey, but I’d never seen his library: 51,000 books.
Reader, would you find this library comforting, or claustrophobic?
[Notice that the steps of the ladder — if that is indeed a ladder and not shelving — hold more books.]
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Richard Macksey’s library
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“An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the nationality of Paul de Man. He was Belgian, not French.”
Shades of Hercule Poirot...
Ha!
His — de Man’s — afterlife is a really strange episode in academia.
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