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Mar. 7th, 2008 03:45 pmSigh. Sometimes I hate my memory.
I can remember the quote I'm looking for, word for word. Can I find it? No. To make things worse, the text I'm looking in has no index and the chapter headings were put in by a mediaeval redactor who was only using a quarter of his or her brain, with the result that they are only vaguely correct (and sometimes dead wrong).
Bah. I can see it on the page! But unfortunately the mental picture isn't clear enough to read the page number, and 'half way down the left hand side at the end of a chapter is only of limited help...
I can remember the quote I'm looking for, word for word. Can I find it? No. To make things worse, the text I'm looking in has no index and the chapter headings were put in by a mediaeval redactor who was only using a quarter of his or her brain, with the result that they are only vaguely correct (and sometimes dead wrong).
Bah. I can see it on the page! But unfortunately the mental picture isn't clear enough to read the page number, and 'half way down the left hand side at the end of a chapter is only of limited help...