Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography by Walt Whitman (opens in new tab)

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18 pointsBooktrope9y ago3 comments

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gwern9y ago· 1 in thread

The method is the interesting part: just using search engines to uncover what is already in the archives, but no Whitman scholar has ever had the time to read through themselves.

jameskegel9y ago

I guess you could say a machine with n^∞ eyes will always have the "home court advantage"

webmaven9y ago

The typography on this is so apt my initial impression was that these were scans.

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