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[boxmint]

When I was nine or ten, I went to celebrate Thanksgiving with my great-aunt, and one of the dinner guests gave me a present. I liked to read, and he’d just finished writing a book, so he gave me a copy--with instructions. His inscription in the front said “Not for cover to cover reading, but for dipping.” Thank goodness. As it is, Prof. Ford’s

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[kengwen]

Maybe color me confused. Isn't M. H. Abra- just what you'd expect to have there, since M. H. Abrams is the editor* (I mean, just what you'd expect in a copy with an incomplete cover page, since normally one would expect the entire name)? Or are you saying it's handwritten, like M. H. Abra- himself signed your copy? That could be marvelous.

*(homework done here)

[boxmint]

No, no--M.H. Abrams was the author of the book I was reading--the glossary of literary terms. And it was somehow stimulating much thought about the contents of the Norton in it. And then I looked at my Norton, and discovered that M.H. Abrams was the editor of the Norton as well which means a. i can profitably use the gloss. of lit. terms as a companion to the Norton and b. my sense of hearing, somehow, a familiar mind, was totally spot on.