Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
9/21: noticing
...some evidence for verbal dictation in the manuscript of the Codex Amiatinus, "mistakes" and departures from the text that could be best accounted for if someone was trying to copy what they heard rather than what they saw. Who knows at what stage of manuscript transmission it happened--it could be that the Codex Amiatinus is copying those "mistakes" rather than making them for the first time--but it's still cool to see in action, and even though the action was centuries ago!
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