Saturday, January 15, 2022

Richard Macksey’s library

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.]

By Michael Leddy at 3:44 PM

2 comments:

  1. shallnotJanuary 16, 2022 3:04 AM


    “An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the nationality of Paul de Man. He was Belgian, not French.”


    Shades of Hercule Poirot...

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  2. Michael LeddyJanuary 16, 2022 7:29 AM

    Ha!

    His — de Man’s — afterlife is a really strange episode in academia.

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