Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation
For As Long As There Have Been Printed Books, There Has Been Marginalia April 7, 2021 “The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.” –Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture * In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import.” In her Nobel Lecture, she noted how language, whether spoken or written, can limn, or describe and detail, life. Derived from the Latin illuminare, meaning to “make light” or “illuminate,” limn has been...
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