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Quotes About Amanuensis

Amanuensis. That was the word she chose, and since it was straight out of the nineteenth century, her mother approved, relishing the blank stares she received when she told her lady guests what position her daughter had acquired with the State Poet Laureate.
~ Toni Morrison
An amanuensis is more than a recording device. An amanuensis is a consciousness-bearing system, and so what it observes in its cosmos has effects in others.
~ Neal Stephenson
The conclusion of the letter is marked by Paul taking the reed pen from the amanuensis and writing the conclusion in his own hand.
~ Thomas R. Schreiner
their spinster amanuensis, the
~ Whit Stillman