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Transcriptions and Notes II

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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

p.67

The old English noun 'travel' (in the sense of a journey) was originally the same word as 'travail' (meaning 'trouble,' 'work' or 'torment'). And the word 'travail,' in turn, seems to have been derived, through the French, from the popular Latin or Common Romanic word trepalium, which meant a three-stoked instrument of torture. To journey - to 'travail' or (later) to travel - then was to do something laborious or troublesome. The traveller was an active man at work. p. 93

The first reproduction of a photograph in a newspaper appeared as recently as March 4,1880 when a picture entitled 'Shanty-Town' was printed in the New York Daily Graphic... the half-tone technique still in use, was developed by Stephen

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Horgan and Frederick Jones... the first half-tones were printed on power presses in 1897. p. 133

Calcutta. Dec 5, 1979

Woman who washes money. trample sones [sic.] house - income tax men + cars of house Rent control extra room for servant not built guilt of economist traffic deaths - children people on the street. political Abstract quality of Bengalis Matches[?]

It is a region in which, if you want to see people at the windows, it is better to shout "fire" than "help." - pleasant saying in Gide Journal 1922 p. 315.

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