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Adventures in Forensic Bibliography #6

Pre-Publication Purgatory, or, what bibliographies tell you about publishing that they don’t want you to know. There isn’t much of a mystery here—more a curious discovery of a bibliographic nature....

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An Oxford variation of the cliché

“I’m not sure how the second part of the cliché works in Oxford, but when they close a door, they take the literal approach.” (The Lost ‘Oxford Noir’: Fragments Recovered from the Shredder)

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More fragments from the shredder

“Oxford post-grads frequently mistake Kafka’s The Castle for a cleverly written version of the History Faculty Handbook.” (Further fragments from Oxford Noir).

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From the Archives (but not my archives)

  The documents spilled out onto the table like the dusty entrails of some juridical shark. This archival immortality preserved the acts of violence and legal manipulations of a dozen noble gentry. He...

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March review

While I am determined to maintain the habit of the monthly review, I can’t say I take much pride in the contents of this one. Naturally, I have only myself to blame for both the results, and my own...

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