Marginalia (4), or, Alligators beware

Books should not be falling down, sideways, upside down,
or backwards.
-from a training manual for library workers

( 4 out of 5 authorities agree... )

The time to begin writing an article is when
you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that
time you begin to clearly and logically perceive
what it is you really want to say.
-Mark Twain

( Progress, regress, congress, trangress... )

...[he] looked across the page to the rest of the book
left in the reader's hand. It was going to be a long epic.
-Bored of the Rings