marginalia

things I wrote in the margins of other books


from a paperback of Ursula K. Le Guin

Found this week
One side note in pencil: "the door is the question, not the answer." I do not remember writing this, but it is my handwriting.

a library copy, returned

Last month
Someone before me underlined every instance of the word "anyway." I tried to find a pattern. There was no pattern.

on lending books

Earlier

I have stopped putting my name in books before lending them. The ones that come back come back. The ones that do not, did not need to be mine in the first place.