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  • Index, A History of the, Part II

    Index, A History of the, Part II

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    Julian Rota
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    A review of Index, A History of the; a bookish adventure by Dennis Duncan, Allen Lane, 2021. One of the many things which delight me about this book is the way in which it sets my mind off on tangents and brings back forgotten memories. We enter the territory of the index as a repository of wit…

  • Index, A History of the, Part I

    Index, A History of the, Part I

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    Julian Rota
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    A review of Index, A History of the; a bookish adventure by Dennis Duncan, Allen Lane, 2021. The photograph of the author, a translator and lecturer in Eglish at University College London, which adorns the dust-jacket of this brilliantly titled book shows a man (I hope he wouldn’t mind) with a cheeky and hugely likeable…