Going off yesterday's post, in my Margaret Atwood class on Tuesday there was one student's used textbook that had a lot of writing in the margins. Lots and lots. It was the stupidest marginality I've ever seen. Hilarious. The previous owner of the book wrote multiple times that she thought the author (Atwood) was crazy (hehehe) and she (feminine handwriting) also did not get any of Atwood's humor (sad indeed). AND she did not understand that the chapter headings on each page was not part of the text itself... even multiple pages later she kept pointing out and questioning the title of the chapter on each page not fitting into the text below.
lol! supreme stupidity.
Which led me to an interesting story idea I'd like to experiment with sometime.
The concept of the invisible pen-pal has already been explored, but this would have a twist.
I would write about a book (either completely made up or some classical fiction book) that has a lot of writing in the margins and lots of room to look for marginality in the text. This book would be found by someone who would write back to the comments written in the margins... mostly arguing with the marginal writing, me thinks.
Then, I could relate the goings on in the book and with the arguing margin-writers with the person's life. Better yet, wouldn't it be so interesting if the first writer did not like the book (or certain passages) so much that they crossed out/ marked out with marker/ covered to make room for their own writing of the book? That would be so neat!
I'll have to save that idea to work on another day. I think that would be an interesting novel to write. =D
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