Posted by pseudoname on July 28, 2006, at 8:38:19
In reply to Re: Cleckley’s “Mask of Sanity” online!, posted by Declan on July 28, 2006, at 3:14:12
> My computer skills are more or less restricted to typing and turning the computer on and pressing the submit button.
Typing is not a skill to be lightly dismissed. A hundred years ago, many businesses still conducted everything in handwriting, even huge contracts and lawsuit filings. Court decisions were handwritten. If they were important, the original would be taken to a printer who would set the proof based on, say, Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior's penmanship.
Sorry. I find office practices of the 19th century captivating.
> You mean there's a whole book in that link?
Merely click on this http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sanity_1.PdF and in a few minutes (depending on the speed of your connection) the huge file will download and then should open itself. If it doesn't, post again.
This pdf edition was created by optical character-reading software from a scan of the 1988 reprint. I notice that it contains a lot of errors that OCR software supposedly doesn't make anymore. I'll tell ya: Holmes' typesetter wouldn't have made those mistakes.
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