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This is, not to put too fine a point on it, totally and thoroughly awesome.
The article, an examination of the annotations by Claire M.L.
Bourne, included a few images from the text, which contained some handwriting Scott-Warren thought looked familiar.
Its always annoying when someone tries to claim that theyve discovered a lost literary artefact, the post begins.
Im going to claim to have identified John Miltons copy of the Shakespeare First Folio of 1623.
Heres why this is a giant deal: Sure, everyone knows about Shakespeare.
(Writers, of course, have been eating that stuff up for centuries.)
Its also unbelievably rare and special.
And this guy just found it, and wrote about it on his blog!
We live in strange and miraculous times.
(Guess where the phrase his dark materials comes from, I dare you.)
