Upon looking back on the online digital editions, I was surprised to see that so few were as well constructed as the Blake archive that me and my partner presented on. Of course, Blake's work, with his blending of art and literature with his Illuminate Press, presents perhaps the ideal candidate for such scholarly work, it seems odd that so few authors receive similar attention, particularly in the case of Dickinson, who's publishers so decisively changed her poems from how they originally appeared by her own hand. Still, the lack of such editions might bring us back to previous conversations where talked about the legitimacy of online publications, and how the status of what's online still seems to fall short of the esteem most feel for books. This is changing, and, given the Blake archive, should change, particularly in his case, considering how unique each of his printed books were.
As for other turns, it seems I've now discerned the key passages in AKM in which I'll apply my "reflexive masochist" lens. It seems the moment when Burden discovers Anne has been sleeping with Talos and his eventual "Drowning by West" will be incredibly useful considering the many homodiegetic Is the author Burden conjures in recounting his relationship to Anne.
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