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the-rolling-libero · 2 years

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Listen im just saying scribes 'prev tagging' their manuscripts is part of how we lost countless classical works but those who copied out the tags preserved fragments that r sometimes all we have so :// choose which side of history you want to be on

#this is both a joke and not a joke #from an archiving standpoint copying out tags u want to preserve is far more effective than prev tagging!#not that thats the point but at some level maybe it should be!a #brother solitude referencing a work in his library is being strangled. brother gregory copy£#copying the relevant sections ily #tho more realistically i wish gregory had copied more not just chunks #but that shit takes a while

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