Marginalia, Entry 9

A pathetic fact about me is that I cannot sign ASL.

I actually can't do gestures very well to begin with, but it seems that ASL is, for the present, impossible for me. I can make some sense of the signs when others sign at me, that's not the issue.

I interpret movements backwards, which means that any signing I do becomes functionally glossolalia -- something similar to language, but very clearly disconnected from it.

Doing It On The DL, Entry 2

Parentheses refer to notes made. Quotation marks are how I choose to show footnotes.

Letter 1:
(Cecille) -> Sophie Carnay (NPC)
- Tanville (NPC)
- en grande toilette, a touriere in the convent (?)
- secretaire (desk)
- Mother Perpetue (NPC)
- Mamma (offscreen)
- Josephine (NPC)

Letter 2:
(Helen) -> (Alan)
- "The words roue and rouerie, now happily (why?) falling into disuse in polite society, were very much in vogue at the time these letters were written."
- Madame de Volanges (Cecille's Mom)
- Comte de Gercourt (Cecille's future husband)
- Intendante (?)
- romance (see Footnote 6)
- only fifteen (underlined)
- gauche (?)
- languor (?)

Letter 3:
(Cecille) -> (Sophie)

Letter 4:
(Alan) -> (Helen)
- myrtle and the laurel (significance!)
- Presidente de Tourvel (married)

Letter 6:
- deshabille (underlined)

Letter 12:
(Cecille) -> (Helen)

Letter 13:
(Helen) -> (Cecille)

Letter 42:
(Alan) -> (Trubel ?)
- ...and yet I wish to obtain them only by an utter submission to your will. (lie)
- One, which I hope will appeal to your sense of justice (justice is circled)
- those who have been accusing me (underlined)
- Madame de Rosemonde (NPC)

Letter 46:
(John) -> (Cecille)
- je vous aime (?)
- (final paragraph is labeled O T P!)

Letter 47:
(Alan) -> (Helen)
- Comtesse de -- (NPC)
- old friend Emilie (underlined)
- ...surrounded by numerous admirers, as many women as men (wow!)
- ...a short, fat little man who jabbered in double Dutch (NPC) and who, I realized, was the real hero of the hour. (How?)
- (at Alan's description of intentionally getting the NPC drunk until the latter passed out, Bastard is scribbled underneath)
- Just a head will do. (head is circled)
- I intend to welcome you with such passion, the Chevalier will be jealous (intentional?!)

Letter 48:
(Alan) -> (Trubel)
- Never did I have so much pleasure in writing to you. Never did I feel as I do now such sweet but such keen emotion. Everything seems to increase my passion. The very air I breathe is burning with sensuality. The very table on which I am writing, dedicated for the first time to this use, has become for me the sacred altar of love. How much more beautiful it will be now in my eyes! I shall have traced upon it my vow to love you for ever! Forgive me, I implore you, the confusion of my senses. (underlined)
- Madame (Trubel)

Letter 49:
(Cecille) -- (OTP) --> (Johnathan)
- Farewell, Monsieur. I can assure you that if I were allowed to love anybody, it would never be anyone but you. But that is all I can say, and it is perhaps more than I should have said. ( <3 )