Like a censorious teacher, Coleridge wrote his comments in red ink, filling the margins and causing him to remark, "Mercy on us, if I go on thus I shall make the book what I suppose it never was before, red all thro'".
My humiliation was completed by Miss Wood's comment, also in red: "I saw this episode, too.
As to the nasty comment, also in red, there is nothing to say except that's bad.
James Gash, Owenton, Ky.: If I were a teacher grading your column, I would circle the last sentence in red and add the comment "Does not follow".
I spend my time desperately trying to complete my work, only to get it back full of corrections in red or with no comments at all.
"Within a single book, I'd see some comments written in blue ink and others written in red by someone else," says Schmitt. "People were having discussions.
Of course there will always be exceptions – the comment from the teacher saying "well done" is also written in red and raspberries are red, but perfectly edible.
I will never forget when, after weeks of poems returned to me marked up in red and green ink, one came back with the comment "lovely".
On Nextdoor, an online social network for neighborhoods, an April post about Sandler — the "Threatening man living in red van on Finley" — garnered more than 300 comments. .
