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> I have it on good authority that it is a handwritten notebook.

I'm suspicious. Didn't Mozart use a word processor?

I mean, not a PC program, that would be ridiculous, but one of those dedicated stand-alone word processor systems (like Smith-Corona made) that they used in ancient times.

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One of my pet peeves is what seems to be an overwhelming desire in writers to always put an adjective in front of every noun. You can never just let it be a "notebook", it has to be some kind of notebook.

It's even worse in product naming and advertising. Nothing can be just "vanilla", you have to even put an adjective in front of your adjectives, like "Mexican vanilla".

EDIT: s/verb/noun/

Rich Corinthian leather! My dude!

But Mexican vanilla is different from Tahitian vanilla which is different from Madagascar. IYKYK and only ignorant people think all vanilla is the same. Saying "just vanilla" shows that ignorance just as someone that says "dirt cheap" has clearly never bought dirt.

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