In "Marginal Comment," he wrote of fantasizing about a solution: "It was clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated," Mr. Dover wrote.
In interviews after "Marginal Comment" appeared, Mr. Dover expressed surprise at the controversy it engendered.
But his vast academic contributions were overshadowed in 1994 with the appearance of his provocative memoir, "Marginal Comment" (Duckworth).
In "Marginal Comment," Mr. Dover wrote of his relief -- even joy -- on learning of his colleague's suicide.
Blake's marginal comment on Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses expresses the position with characteristic vehemence: "To Generalize is to be an Idiot.
Let me put it bluntly, and not as some marginal comment: my chief expert says this approach will not succeed.
Through the early modern period and beyond, people jotted down nice turns of phrase in commonplace books, and inserted slips or marginal comments in printed books, as a way of coping with a world of information that, as the historian Ann Blair has shown, already contained "too much to know".
In Adams's lecture notes there are often marginal comments to show an image to the class; those images were supplied either from his photographic or print collection.
His attentiveness as a reader extended to his marking of students' work, and undergraduate translations and essays would invariably be returned with copious marginal comments and corrections, beautifully crafted and pointing to a close and generous engagement with his students.
Larissa produces a complete draft, following the original almost word by word, with many marginal comments and observations.
Some marginal comments are circled in red.
