Thus sayeth the Lord: "She who writeth in ye margin shall ascend to heaven" (Scribbler 10:16)
Click the above pic to enlarge it. It looks like that kind of perfect handwriting you see in ads that are made to look like they have handwriting on them. What you see is what I saw, and has not been altered in any way. I don't know who scribbled out the portion on the left-hand page, but I make it out to say, "When the world DIDN'T EXIST!" referring to the line "Around the tenth century B.C.E."
Even better, on page 43, this brave crusader crossed out "damning" in a sentence. Then she wrote "lindseybizilia @ hotmail" on the margin next to it. I take no responsibility for any hijinks that occur from that disclosure...I'll just say, to each their own, even if it makes my textbook hard to read.
Whatever happened to faith being a personal thing?
6 comments:
I love this post! Didn't the author of your marginalia know that A.D. stands for Anno Domini, Latin for "In the Year of Our Lord"? What kind of bible wackers do you have down there, anyway?
I was about to make the same comment, Michael. (Nice to meet'ya ;-9)
But then again, the sort of person that would make that big a deal about "BCE" in a textbook probably wouldn't know Latin if it came up and bit her on the nose.
This is one of the things I miss out on by not buying used books much. On the other hand, I'm not sure that's a bad thing. (But I'm an inveterate margin-scribbler myself: people can have lots of fun with my books after I'm gone.)
Just to add some contrast, when I was in Sociology 100, our professor had all of us go through our slightly-outdated text-books and write in the 'E's.
You know, you'd think that if god were really speaking to all of these self-righteous ninnies, once in a while he'd tell them to get their shit straight.
AD stands for "after Jesus' death?" Wow! I had no idea Christ only lived for a year. Less, actually. He lived for the brief moment BETWEEN 1 BC and 1 AD.
Actually, the whole "Common Era" thing has always struck me as kind of pointless. We still count our years from the supposed year of Christ's birth, so all we've done is change the words we use...
Doesn't BC stand for "Before Clinton"
Ex. The Marines took it to the Republican Guard in the year 1 B.C.
Flamingo et al.:
To read what God really says when he talks to people see The Book of Norman post at The American Journal. The URL is http://theamericanjournal.blogspot.com/2004/07/book-of-norman.html
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