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fisherkings · 6 months

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grad school is just fighting with the worst online library database trying to find a workable edition of a semi-obscure text and going slowly rabid because all my “institutional access” and “third-party sources” can get me is:

- the crunchiest, highest contrast, most sandblasted, misaligned scan in existence of an original manuscript (no OCT or pdf available)

- one (1) verse translation on hathitrust from 1831 which has since been thoroughly lambasted for wildly inaccurate interpretation of the text

- an unpublished critical edition cited in the footnotes of 2 secondary scholarship pieces, available only via pleading email to the academic who wrote it and is now retired

+ an unrelated modern cookbook / memoir / high fantasy romance novel w/ the same or similar title

#i wish any of these were exaggerations but they’re literally not #at this point. i would pay personal money for a better edition IF THEY EXISTED!! IF ANYONE HAD CREATED ONE!!!!!#even the crustiest dustiest mustiest scan that makes my eyes bleed would be ok. charming even. unfortunately i actually cannot find this #for any of the texts i could feasibly read in the original.#doomed to translations of texts i can read doomed to OCTs of middle german…#literally never thought id be so thankful for loeb classical library in my life but i had it good out here #apart from having to try and read inscriptions from 240x360px museum website jpegs #anyway. i’m NOT losing my mind and i’m NOT going to email a german professor emeritus minding his own business #i AM going to perform black magics #grad tag #fr though…german academics have such power every time i’m looking for a good compendium or critical ed there’s a german edition out there #that far exceeds english competition #worlds most annoying choose your fighter and its a pdf vs search-only hathitrust results vs two lines qtd from an unpub ms

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