Q&A with Typewriter Collector Steve Soboroff by [[American Writers Museum]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Soboroff

https://laviegraphite.blogspot.com/2012/07/good-companion.html

Dylan Thomas used a black Imperial Good Companion typewriter.

Link to: https://hypothes.is/a/e-zWRgHOEe-cIEt7dzry5A

Patti Smith used a late 60s or early 70s Smith-Corona (SCM) portable typewriter.

Source: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/typers.html

link to: https://hypothes.is/a/e-zWRgHOEe-cIEt7dzry5A

https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/typers.html

via https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-lyrics

https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/philly-typewriter-taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-lyrics-easter-eggs-20240422.html

Swifties thought that the lack of a "1" key on her typewriter was an Easter egg hiding in the video... ha!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/quotes

In this quote from Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures, 2000) Forrester (portrayed by Sean Connery) turns the idea that writing is thinking on its head.

How to Write Mini Essays (in Obsidian) by [[Nick Milo]]

meh... a nearly complete retread of [[Odysseas]]' Mini Essays: The Ultimate Learning Tool

Mini Essays: The Ultimate Learning Tool by [[Odysseas]]

Reasonable advice to beginners in the note taking/creation space. Very old hat for me; nothing new. Watched at 2x.

reply to u/judugrovee at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1cb1s8j/so_how_do_you_actually_transfer_a_book_with_a/

Others here have written some good advice about the note taking portions, but perhaps some of your issue is with your reading method. To reframe this, I recommend you take a look at How to Read a Book: The Classical Guide to Intelligent Reading (Touchstone, 2011) by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren and Adler's earlier article “How to Mark a Book" (Saturday Review of Literature, July 6, 1940. https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1940jul06-00011/)

The careful reader will notice that they recommend a lot of the same sorts of note making and annotation practices as Ahrens does (and by extension Luhmann), though their notes are being written in the margins and in the front and back pages of the book. On the reading front, you may be conflating some of the reading/understanding/learning work with the note taking and sense making portions. If instead, you do a quick inspectional read followed by a read through prior to doing a more analytical read you'll find that you have a stronger understanding of the material conceptually. Some of the material you took expansive notes on before will likely seem basic and not require the sorts of permanent notes you've been making. Your cognitive load will have been lessened and you'll instead spend more productive time making fewer, but more useful permanent notes in the end.

On the first reads through, reframe your work as coming to a general understanding of what is going on while you're creating a quick-and-dirty personal index of what is interesting in the work. On subsequent focus, you can hone in on the most important pieces of what the author is saying with respect to your own interests and work. It's here that the dovetailing of good reading method and good note making method will shine for you, and importantly help cut down on what may seem like busywork.

It's not often discussed in some of the ZK space, but reading method can be even more important than note taking method. And at the end of the day, your particular needs and regular practice (practice, and more practice) will eventually help hone your work into something more valuable to you over time. Eventually you'll more quickly rise to the level of what C. Wright Mills called "intellectual craftsmanship" (1952).

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1caofcz/how_to_get_my_silentsuper_to_not_rotate_to_the/

Because of aging, the rubber feet of many typewriters can harden thereby reducing their friction against the table on which they sit. As a result, this can cause one's typewriter to "walk" across the table as they type for extended periods necessitating their recentering from time to time. To remedy this, one could use custom made typewriter mats with rubber bottoms to prevent this walking as well as to protect the table underneath. Other options which may also work are either wool or felt pads from fabric stores or from Chinese/Japanese calligraphy stationers. In Japanese these mats are called shitajiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bel_Geddes

Interestingly, I saw his name and immediately thought of Barbara Bel Geddes and Vertigo.

reply to u/bastugubbar at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ca8nwk/i_for_one_welcome_our_new_taylor_swift_overlords/

Let's be honest here, the most recent typewriter reference (presumably to that of an ex-boyfriend) is certainly not her first. I'm a modest Swiftie at best (from a trivia perspective), preferring to think of her work as poetry rather than musical pop-culture, so I imagine her more as a quill pen sort of writer, though my notes indicate she does take some of her notes for composition using her cell phone.

This being said, a few years back she did feature a red Sears Cutlass in All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) at the 8:28 mark, which hasn't driven the cost of these through the roof, though I have seen one listed for $1,000 (it unsurprisingly didn't sell for that.) For more here see Robert Messenger at OzTypewriter and Ryan Schocket for Buzzfeed. It's not listed anymore, but this past Christmas, she also had a red typewriter Christmas tree ornament in her online store.

Those who were privileged to attend the recent Eras Tour (or see it on Disney+) saw groups of typewriters in the background during several songs.

She's been featuring typewriters for a bit now and it hasn't driven prices through the roof any more than the typewriter renaissance that's been going on for the last few years or so. I suspect that this new round of references isn't going to shift things significantly.

If she does go full-typewriter, which model(s) do you suspect she'd be using amidst the pantheon of other writers? I'd suggest she may be romantic enough to do a late 40's Smith-Corona Clipper... or perhaps while jet-setting a Skyriter?

Type on!

“Business Machines.” The Journal of Business Education, September 1, 1930. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00219444.1930.10771593.

Scientific principles had bled so thoroughly into both culture and business that even advertising for filing systems in business in the 1930 featured their ability to be used and expanded scientifically.

Simões, Luciana G., Rita Peyroteo-Stjerna, Grégor Marchand, Carolina Bernhardsson, Amélie Vialet, Darshan Chetty, Erkin Alaçamlı, et al. “Genomic Ancestry and Social Dynamics of the Last Hunter-Gatherers of Atlantic France.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, no. 10 (March 5, 2024): e2310545121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2310545121.

saw via article:<br /> Europe's last hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding by [[Dario Radley]]

Europe's last hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding by [[Dario Radley]]

Any evidence of moieties in these groups? How would one test this compared to modern instantiations in indigenous peoples?

Back to YouTube by [[Dan Allosso]]

https://www.gadgetwisdom.com/

https://gimmedelicious.com/easy-one-bowl-fudgy-cocoa-brownies/

Evie made for us on 2024-04-17

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375385572993

Sold, presumably for $600 on 2024-04-20 with free shipping. This had previously been listed and relisted for 1000 reducing 100 every few weeks until now.

Taylor Swift effect with her new album drop perhaps?

https://ali.org/news/articles/three-generations-no-imbeciles/

Earl Hamner Jr. Comes Home by [[Mike Boehm]] for the Los Angeles Times

DeSantis tweaks Florida book challenge law, blames liberal activist who wanted Bible out of schools by [[Brendan Farrington]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic

source: Fineman, Mia (June 8, 2005). "The Most Famous Farm Couple in the World: Why American Gothic still fascinates". Slate. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/art/2005/06/the_most_famous_farm_couple_in_the_world.html

BEST of BOTH Worlds? Digitizing Field Notes inside Obsidian [Showcase] by [[CyanVoxel]]

Full List of People Taylor Swift Name-Checks in 'Tortured Poets Department' by [[Billie Schwab Dunn]]

reply to u/Lauchpferd at https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1c6ydzp/how_much_googleable_information_do_you_have_in/

This is the wrong question to be asking. If it were useful, then Google has everything already, so why bother? Let them do all the work for you.

Most note taking methods were evolved to not only aid in sensemaking, but to help people with the exponentially growing "information overload" problem. Sure you can Google many things, but doing so usually provides "facts" and rarely ever actual insight. Thus: discover, collect, index, link, build.

If you had to search every time to use a thing, you'd lose out most of your effort to the scourge of time when you've probably seen it before and could find it internally among your own collection of millions of things (with greater accuracy as well as reliability of the information you've previously vetted) versus Google's quadrillions of things which would all need to be vetted for relevancy, accuracy, and then placement among the thread of ideas you were attempting to potentially build toward. And once you've found it to place where you need it to make an argument or complete an argument, where will you put it? in your notes? And now you've come full circle.

Save yourself the time and only do the job once.

No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them. —Umberto Eco

Our Dreyfuss Affair by [[Robert A. Jones]] for the Los Angeles Times<br /> 1997-05-07

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/196139225

address and phone numbers for Henry Dreyfuss, the industrial designer responsible for the The Western Electric model 500 telephone series and the later princess phone.

South Pasadena City Directory, 1961-1962<br /> by California Directory Publishing Co. https://archive.org/details/csp_000062/page/n21/mode/2up?view=theater

https://typewriterdatabase.com/royal.72.typewriter-serial-number-database

Henry Dreyfuss, Noted Designer, Is Found Dead With His Wife by The New York Times

Henry Dreyfuss: Designer for Humanity | The South Pasadenan by [[Rick Thomas]] of South Pasadena News

https://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2015/10/other-a6-page-size-combinations.html

https://www.hjreggel.net/office/lochraster.html

https://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-great-organiser-hole-spacing.html

https://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2010/03/question-re-filofax-and-franklin-covey.html

Franklin Compact should accommodate a FiloFax Personal size (at least in terms of the hole spacings.

https://store.franklinplanner.com/metal-hole-punch/

2024-04-17 at Acts Thrift store Pocket/Compact hole punch for $2.99

https://typewriters.com/categories/typewriter-supplies.html

https://www.typewriterconnection.com/

Mueller, Hans-Friedrich. The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity (Course Guide). 1st ed. The Great Courses: History - Civilization and Culture 2852. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2020. https://www.amazon.com/Pagan-World-Ancient-Religions-Christianity/dp/B084YV1YYT/.<br /> @Mueller2020a

and the Streaming video version (Hoopla):<br /> Pagan World: Ancient Religions before Christianity. Streaming Video. The Great Courses. Chantilly, VA, 2020. https://www.hoopladigital.com/television/pagan-world-ancient-religions-before-christianity-hans-friedrich-mueller/14601704.<br /> @Mueller2020

15 sexuality terms you might not have heard of <br /> https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/sexuality-terms-you-might-not-have-heard-of

reply to deleted u/Ellebellemig comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1c4kaps/giving_you_notes_a_unique_id_the_debate_continues/kzqf7rz/?context=3

I was having a new look at (NotionApp I think) and notished a comment I made when I originally tested the app. I was told the comment was made ‘2 years ago’, with no way to see the actual date and time.

Most apps simply steal your datetime and tell you a story about it. ‘3 days ago’. But is that friday or thursday ?

Filesystems - and apps- cant be trusted on system datetime. With datetime in title and text you have an UID. You wont be blind later, and can freely move between apps and different OS.

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I'll grant you that there are certainly applications which are poorly designed for use as tools within the zettelkasten space and don't take these things into account well (or at all). But your issue is sheerly backstop to duct tape over their poor design and in general is unlikely to provide you (or others without the knowledge or ability) with a better user interface in the case that you're looking for a timeline of notes. (Incidentally, in many web or related applications including Notion, hovering over the '3 days ago' title with your mouse will display a hover text with the exact date/time stamp.)

The entire point of the question is that this sort of functionality should be basic table stakes for any note taking application. Yet here we are several years into an armada of new note taking applications, many of which are being used for zettelkasten or zettelkasten-like functionality which don't have this most basic feature built into them.

So again, this issue (and the issue of accidentally overwriting a file by giving it the same name as a pre-existing file) aside, one has to ask, what direct affordance does providing a date/time stamp in a title or file name provide???

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I'm with you on some of this, but let me play devil's advocate for a moment, so that we might hew closer to the question u/atomicnotes has posed:

If a Dewey Decimal Number is equivalent to a topic heading or subject, then what is the difference between using these subject/category/tag headings and forgoing the work of translating into a DC number (a task which is far less straightforward for those without a library science). If there is a onto to one and onto correspondence there should mathematically be no difference.

And how does one treat insightful material on geometry (516), for example, which comes from a book classified about political science (320-329)?

In a similar vein, why not use Otlet's Universal Decimal Classification which more easily allows for the admixture of topics as well as time periods?

Separately, I'll echo your valuable statement:

"I think everyone stumbles into a system of their own. I suspect the best practice here is the one that works for you!"

This is the first time I've seen a mention of a Cutter number in the zettelkasten space.

I've always appreciated this serendipity, but never read a source talking about it specifically.

Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953)

Peter Pan calls the lost boys a bunch of "blockheads".

Another good reason never to write on the back of one's index cards is that it precludes the necessity of scanning the backs of cards for complete digital back ups.

Without this one would need to scan all the backs and either handle the special cases of cards which did have backs or removing "blank" cards after the fact.

https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Obsidian-Beginner-Advance-Techniques-ebook/dp/B0BZ11C7KY

What is their specific definition of a digital zettelkasten? (Is it more Luhmann-artig or commonplace book?)

Adler, Mortimer J. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Review of Literature, July 6, 1940.

See also: https://hypothes.is/a/WZWWgnV2EeyFFBshJKbM4A

This is not only a nice quote by itself, but seems to be saying something deeper to me about productivity.

There's a difference in productivity for it's own sake, but being both productive in the send of time spent efficiently and productive in the sense of producing something of greater value with your time than you might have spent doing something else which was less valuable, but which might still have been time well spent.

Adler is indexing not just the topics, but he's doing it in the order of their temporal appearance in the book as they're used (presumably to make arguments). This then also becomes an outline of these arguments.

Adler recommends annotating portions of books with page numbers for related ideas as a means to link those ideas together.

This sort of worship of objects extends to those who overbuy notebooks (or other stationery). It's nice to "own" them, but it's even more valuable to write your thoughts in them and use them as the tools they were meant to be.

cross-reference: https://hypothes.is/a/sSgxLMGoEe6j8ccyyMeDTw

ownership [of a book]

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1c3rszm/do_you_annotate_your_books/

A great repository of annotation practices from book readers via Reddit (r/books).

In North by Northwest her character said she was 26 when Eva Marie Saint was approximately 35. Meanwhile Cary Grant was approximately 55.

Knowledge management and organizing information for use – Andy Sylvester's Web by [[Andy Sylvester]]

https://andysylvester.com/2024/04/12/knowledge-management-and-organizing-information-for-use/

(6:13) Andy mentions lost "tribal knowledge" with respect to corporate information. This aphorism seems fairly regular in Western countries, but the interesting part about actual tribal knowledge is that it would have been stored with several people and spread out in ways to make the accidental deaths of individuals not able to take the knowledge to their graves with them.

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I posed your question to my own card index:

Generally scientists haven't spent the time to talk about their methods the way those in the social sciences and humanities are apt to do. This being said, their methods are unsurprisingly all the same.

If you want to look up examples, you can delve into the nachlass (digitized or not) of most of the famous scientists and mathematicians out there to verify this. Ramon Llull certainly wrote, but broadly memorized all of his work; Newton had his wastebooks; Leibnitz used Thomas Harrison's Ark of Studies cabinet; Carl Linnaeus "invented" index cards for his work (search for the work of Staffan Müller-Wille and Isabelle Charmantier); Erasmus Darwin and Charles Darwin both used commonplace books; physicist Mario Bunge had a significant zettelkasten practice; Richard Feynman used notebooks; engineer Ross Ashby used a combination of notebooks which he indexed using a card index.

For historical reasons, most used a commonplace book method in which they indexed against keywords rather than Luhmann's variation, but broadly the results are the same either way.

Computer scientist Gerald Weinberg is one of the few I'm aware of within the sciences who's written a note taking manual, but again, his method is broadly the same as that described by other writers for centuries:

Weinberg, Gerald M. Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method. New York, N.Y: Dorset House, 2005.

I identify as both a mathematician and an engineer, and I have a paper-based zettelkasten for these areas, primarily as I prefer writing out equations versus attempting to write everything out as LaTeX. I'm sure others here could add their experiences as well. I've previously written about zettelkasten from the framing of set theory, topology, dense sets, and have even touched on it with respect to the ideas of equivalence classes and category theory, though I haven't published much in depth here as most don't have the mathematical sophistication to appreciate the structures and analogies.

John Waters' Youth Manifesto by [[Cath Clark]], [[Tish Wrigley]] in AnOther Magazine

It may require having something like "youth spies" to keep up with the more interesting parts of contemporary culture, and these can be used for expanding one's combinatorial creativity horizon.

An interview with Mary Ruefle by [[Austin Kleon]]

Kleon's wife Meg, with a master's in architecture, has aphantasia.

The mastery of knowledge is an illusion by [[Richard]] aka (Writing Slowly)

Moderate people, not code by [[Ryan Barrett]]

or even person by person...

ROFL

How to Get Rid of a Hangnail by [[Caroline Hopkins]]

Worth, Robert F. “Clash of the Patriarchs.” The Atlantic, April 10, 2024. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/russia-ukraine-orthodox-christian-church-bartholomew-kirill/677837/.

A fantastic overview of the history, recent changes and a potential schism in the Orthodox Church with respect to the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

church:education:scholasticism::church:state:sinfonia

Bad history can be paraded under the umbrella of propaganda, not to serve to tell the story of the past, but to tell a story about a coming future.

Hadn't thought of it before, but how was the news outlet Axios named?

Example of a church mixing religion with social and political order and resultant problems.

See also: scholasticism

Many in the southern United States are converting to Orthodox Christianity, a conversion which is tied into patriarchal ideas on the far right.

Ideally, when classifying, one should draw up classes which are mutually exclusive so as to better differentiate the items under consideration. This is not always possible and there are some cases where having overlap my be beneficial in one's work.

Classification is a noun from which classify and class are attendant verbs which should have different meanings. The first is the creation of a plan or scheme and the second is the application of that plan. Defining these becomes important for bigger organizations as the two actions can be carried out by different people and their meaning is even more important for individual note takers as they may be doing both operations simultaneously and thereby miss some important parts of the process which cause issues later on. (¶101)

you have to appreciate him differentiating his terms even if he's not coming to terms with others.

He's a professional librarian at the turn of the 20th century, so his definitions of words like enumerate, arrange, class, classify, systematize, and organize will be intriguing.

in ¶90-96 he provides some advice about selection and discrimination of reading sources and materials for indexing as a means of cutting down on the information overload problem

Some of his factors include: - relying on experience in a field/area to narrow down - limiting one's scope of activity - staying away from reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias - discriminate in favor of the specific versus the general - don't admit duplicative literature (unless one is working syntopically—though he doesn't admit this caveat), and prefer the most authoritative sources - prefer authoritative authors, when given, but make space for new writers who may be more careful in their writing and argumentation - discriminate by style and composition and in particular stay away from pernicious advertising-related material (today he might advocate away from listicles, content farms, etc.)

Again he's mentioning advertising... obviously it was starting to become a significant factor in people's regular reading sources (presumably magazines) to bear mentioning it and advising caution as a result.

When possible, use the most authoritative source in your work, but one should balance this out with the additional work required to find and quote that source versus taking it from a secondary and reliable source.

Academic researchers ought to default to the original and most authoritative, but others may find it more expedient and just as valuable to rely on secondary sources.

RE: Thinking about Luhmann's ZKI and ZKII at https://hypothes.is/a/nEPjVPN3Ee6EheNfkl3DfA

I have to wonder if there's an explicit nod to both ZKI and ZKII in Daniel Lüdecke's naming of ZKN3 here? or had he simply gone through prior iterations of the software himself?

Given his experience in the space, the work of creating a second index (card index/zettelkasten), marks an important change or shift in perspective.

This may shed light on Niklas Luhmann's practices between ZKI and ZKII. What were the important differences between the two? Presumably closer focus was important for ZKII.

psychology was already being applied to advertising in 1908...

The root problem of information overload.

Everything he highlights here is still present over a century later and only amplified to the nth degree.

Since 1908 there's also been the move towards small digestible social media which increases the dial on repetition and duplication, but the sense of flow created by dopamine hits to be found in the attention economy make these difficult things to overcome.

There is a range of reading lengths and levels of argumentation which can be found in these various ranges.

Some will complain about the death of books or the rise of articles or the rise of social media and the attention economy. Where is balance to be found.

Kaiser speaks to these issues in ¶75-79. One must wonder what Kaiser would have thought about the bite-sized nature of social media and it's distracting nature?

A quote from 1908 about information overload, though not as heavy-handed as other examples, but still complaint-like in nature.

There are likely other metadata he may be missing here: - in particular dates/times/time periods which may be useful for the historians. - others? - general forms of useful metadata from a database perspective?

How to Use the Dial Phone, 1927. http://archive.org/details/HowtoUse1927.

BBC Archive - #OnThisDay 1974: Mortimer J. Adler tried to flog Christopher Rainbow the new 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.<br /> https://archive.org/details/twitter-1085501921207627776

Graham, David A. “The Trump Two-Step.” The Atlantic, April 4, 2024. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/trump-two-step-bloodbath-2024-election/677966/.

Evidence supporting Trump's doubletalk: https://boffosocko.com/2016/09/30/complexity-isnt-a-vice-10-word-answers-and-doubletalk-in-election-2016/

ref: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/trump-bloodbath-biden-november-00147453

Some of the first part of the Trump Two-Step sounds like the idea of "Schrödinger's douchebag".

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schrodinger%27s%20douchebag

Do Americans Really Have More Free Time Than They Used To? by [[Derek Thompson]]

Which study?

Was it mentioned by Robert Caro in his Johnson biography which has a chapter laying out some of this work before electrification?

Muhanna, Elias. “A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone.” The New Yorker, May 23, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-new-history-of-arabia-written-in-stone.

There's a close similarity of names on stones in early Arabia and the names on stones in a similar time period in early Britain.

There's got to be a great journal article on this!

Researcher Michael Macdonald created a card index database of safaitic inscriptions which he and French archaeologist Laïla Nehmé eventually morphed into a digital database which included a collection of photographs of the extant texts.

Safaitic is an example of the beginning of writing in Arabia at the rise of Islam and may have interesting things to reveal about orality on the border of literacy.

Compare this with ancient Welsh (and related Celtic languages and stone inscriptions) at about the same time period.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8120601076/

Edward Lane's Arabic English Lexicon sounds like it was compiled by means of card index. Worth looking into the scholarly method behind compiling it.

https://dev-indy0.fission.app/hyp/facet/?max=50

This looks like Boris Mann and the gang are running their own version of Jon Udell's Hypothe.is tool.

https://jackdougherty.github.io/h_export/any.html

Was Aaron Sorkin inspired by Middlemarch to borrow the name Wilberforce for West Wing Season 4, Episode 9 "Swiss Diplomacy"?

Fascinating that within a section or prose about indexing within MiddleMarch (set in 1829 to 1832 and published in 1871-1872), George Eliot compares a character's distinguished appearance to that of John Locke!

Mr. Brooke asks for advice about arranging notes as he has tried pigeon holes but has the common issue of multiple storage and can't remember under which letter he's filed his particular note. Mr. Casaubon indicates that he uses pigeon-holes.

Dorothea Brooke mentions that she knows how to properly index papers so that they might be searched for and found later. She is likely aware of John Locke's indexing method from 1685 (or in English in 1706) and in the same scene compares Mr. Casaubon's appearance to Locke.

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Edited by Bert G. Hornback. 2nd ed. Norton Critical Editions. 1874. Reprint, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/must-know-facts-about-the-dodge-tomahawk/ar-BB1kZEJ2?cvid=ffd292e4dd8d424ba7a6138a55d7bca5&ocid=winp2fpswipe&ei=29