drbastard
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Not sure if this belongs in here or esoterica but I thought that someone might be able to enlighten me about something. I own a 1957 Routledge & Kegan Paul copy of PD Ouspensky’s Tertium Organum that I bought it in about 1997 in a charity shop in Sheffield.
It is littered with red biro notes-the owner obviously studied it thoroughly. Many of the notes seem to be comments or criticisms of the text. To my regret I have never got round to reading it and know little of philosophy, but the notes don’t seem to make much sense. The previous owner has signed his name in the first page- Henry (James?). The writing is pretty illegible for the most part and I have in the past spent time trying to decipher it but it seems mysterious to me.
Anyway, what I am most baffled about is that it is periodically littered with what is obviously a date/time and some other numbers and letters written in the margin. For example:
19=1951W Saturday 2nd February 1963.00.
6.8.61 20.48 (W) 21.03 (MRC)
6.11.62 13…13w at MRC!
17.4.63 23.5Sw DBRC/OR Wed. after Rostain mtg at yil FR Tonkin Sidney Austi
The above transcription may not be 100% correct because the writing is pretty hard to read. But that last bit seems like complete gobbledygook. Sometimes the writing looks a bit ‘forced’ and different in style from the normally flowing italic style elsewhere.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be about? I’m not saying it’s anything thrilling but if anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful.
It is littered with red biro notes-the owner obviously studied it thoroughly. Many of the notes seem to be comments or criticisms of the text. To my regret I have never got round to reading it and know little of philosophy, but the notes don’t seem to make much sense. The previous owner has signed his name in the first page- Henry (James?). The writing is pretty illegible for the most part and I have in the past spent time trying to decipher it but it seems mysterious to me.
Anyway, what I am most baffled about is that it is periodically littered with what is obviously a date/time and some other numbers and letters written in the margin. For example:
19=1951W Saturday 2nd February 1963.00.
6.8.61 20.48 (W) 21.03 (MRC)
6.11.62 13…13w at MRC!
17.4.63 23.5Sw DBRC/OR Wed. after Rostain mtg at yil FR Tonkin Sidney Austi
The above transcription may not be 100% correct because the writing is pretty hard to read. But that last bit seems like complete gobbledygook. Sometimes the writing looks a bit ‘forced’ and different in style from the normally flowing italic style elsewhere.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be about? I’m not saying it’s anything thrilling but if anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful.