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Except for this link to The W. H. Auden Society.
And this comparative table of some European epics (also PDF version).
And these charts of some symmetries in the Iliad.
And this note on an unpublished introduction to Gravity’s Rainbow.
And this checklist of the writings of Mstislav Bogdanovich.

And an AppleScript wrapper for notarytool.
And a list of emulators for running old software on current systems,
including: Mac OS 9 for macOS and for Windows (based on SheepShaver),
Windows 98 SE for macOS and Windows 10/11 (based on DOSBox-X),
installers for the Otvdm/winevdm system and for XyWrite for Windows,
Win31DOSBox (runs Windows 3.1 under modern Windows),
Win31DOSBoxMac (runs Windows 3.1 under current macOS),
the SheepShaver Wrapper for macOS, and much else, including
vDos for the MacWordPerfect for Windows on the Macintosh,
a DOSBox-X-App for Windows and macOS and a simpler alternative,
XyWrite 4 for DOS under macOS,  A/UX under macOS,
how to run OED 4.0 on modern Macintosh systems,
Microsoft Expression Web under macOS,
a standalone build of ImageMagick for macOS ,
and a Windows-based converter from legacy to modern file formats
and macOS-based converters of the same kind.

And these links to a brief history of style and structure in Word,
a 1985 review of word-processors and a 1986 follow-up,
a printfile-printing utility for old applications in modern Windows,
"raw" printing under Windows 8 and 10NTVDMx64 by Leecher1337,
a C++ utility to write the Windows clipboard to a file,
a utility for printing PDF files from the Windows command line,
a utility to create (and print) PDF files from Windows text files,
 PCL to PDF for Windows and macOS,
PostScript and EPS to PDF for macOS and for Windows,
how to retrofit the ThinkCentre M910t and M920t,
WordPerfect for DOS UpdatedNoBlink Accelerator,
wireless networking with a PowerBook 100 (vintage 1991),
and an obsolete method for bouncing lowercase-only e-mail.

And these observations by Virginia Woolf:
“Whether we gain or not by this habit of profuse communication
it is not for us to say.” (Jacob’s Room, 1922)
“This soul, or life within us, . . . is always saying the very opposite
to what other people say.” (“Montaigne,”1924)
“The conduct of affairs has passed from the hands of individuals
to the hands of committees.” (“The London Scene,” 1931)
“the present discordant and distracted twitter” (Reviewing, 1939)

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Edward Mendelson (edward [dot] mendelson [at] columbia [dot] edu)