Many scholars of history, literature and folklore have tales of how a random, seemingly irrelevant, comment in a footnote or margin of an old book set them off on a fascinating new line of research, which sometimes kept them occupied for years, or sometimes for the rest of their life.

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I saw this a day or so after submitting The Pursuit of Academic Excellence (and Ice Cream). It nicely illustrates the history of writing this story.

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