We need to recultivate our love of eccentrics. In UK, at least, there was an honoured place for them & we forgave them their idiosyncrasies
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Classmates all marvelling at trying to remember all this so as to 'stay in your lane.' I thought at the time we have our own version.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Interesting. Though...wouldn't an inferior "showing deference" be wasting paper thus causing the offence from your prior tweet? (serious q)
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Yes, kind of! That was what was interesting. Seeing how people balanced this. Also depended on how much lower they were.
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I looked at a letter from an estate manager to his noblewoman employer. Completely different class so he had to do both.
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Wrote in tiny writing with words and lines close together & then his name touching the bottom. Space looked big but wasn't really.
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A member of the nobility writing to the monarch could & would waste paper coz that was a compliment but signature still much lower.
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Thanks! Though generalized, *not all* 16th century letter writers abused whitespace violently due to social striation. Right? ;-)
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