We know what the composer was thinking as he wrote the piece because we can read his handwritten marginalia on the manuscript.
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Marginalia
/mɑɹd͡ʒɪˈneɪli.ə/
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In so doing, he transforms the Foxian compulsion to distinguish true martyrs from false ones —and thus to differentiate his own saint-making project from medieval hagiography—into a model of textual criticism, directed at detecting and desanctifying the false martyr through the critical medium of marginalia.
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