Annotated Book Buyer’s Regret

wtf this is the last time I buy an annotated book on ebay Wednesday, May 18 When I went in to teach class, I finally felt that something might happen, that the political system I'd grown up with, which had been showing cracks for so long, might suddenly explode. I don't know exactly where the feeling came from. Maybe it was the attitude of my grad students: even the most apathetic and apolitical looked tense, anxious. They were ob-

A screenshot shows an annotated book page with a crude, angry-looking drawing of a bespectacled face over the printed text. The joke is that buying a used book online resulted in an absurd and unsettling annotation that completely overwhelms the serious political passage, making the buyer regret the purchase. EN: A screenshot shows an annotated book page with a crude, angry-looking drawing of a bespectacled face over the printed text. The joke is that buying a used book online resulted in an absurd and unsettling annotation that completely overwhelms the serious political passage, making the buyer regret the purchase.

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