as i pack my books i'm also rereading dedications. yen, i find, signed off a copy of eros the bittersweet with "yours in rum, crime and riot." heh.

and a copy of nohrnberg's essay on dante (sometimes i forget nohrnberg is a dantista.) which i'd read before as a word doc, but not in published form, signed only "affectionately yours. (though i like best his inscription in the analogy which was signed "with admiration and affection" meaning, i suppose, "yes we're friends, and you're not so daft as you appear."

people seldom inscribe books these days.

i feel like reading that anne fadiman essay "words on a flyleaf" again but i think it's at home. i want to read about that classical scholar who wrote his passionate inscription in virgilian hexameters.