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“... But they knew little about what these lost collections looked like or included. After all, as Andrew Hui points out, even library terminology was slippery. Bibliotheca could refer to anything from a single compendious book, such as the Scriptures, to a single cabinet or a whole collection. Monasteries had large, sunny scriptoria (‘writing ...”

“... for the original, offering big-ups to mass shooters before him – ‘I was influenced by Seung-Hui Cho. That’s my boy right there,’ he said, referring to the Virginia Tech killer – before stepping into the warm bath of nihilism and sentimentality where such manifesto-writers eventually seek to drown. They are pulled under with their trophies, but out ...”

“... documents include the partially unpublished manuscript memoirs of Mao’s second wife, Yang Kai-hui (one of these manuscripts is quoted at length in words ‘mostly recalled from memory after reading this document in an archive’); the ‘records of interrogations of executioners in the 1960s, unpublished’; ‘contemporary newspaper reports’; the ...”