Book Marks
In old books, ink from engravings seeps into surrounding pages and imprints a copy of the original image. These copies are imperfect, but also more accurate--like a photograph. What we think we know of Shakespeare is as clear as a cliché; what we actually know of him resembles these likenesses—secondhand, obscured and blurred by time.
Colonel House and the President, 1916
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