The eighth floor of Butler is most commonly viewed among Columbia’s undergraduate population as Butler’s wasteland—private graduate student carrels line the hall like sepulchers, screaming uniformity and academic browbeating. But while the finer advantages of Butler 8 may not include earning precious Butler social capital, precocious grad students—and perhaps some adventurous undergraduates—voice their frustration by inscribing marginalia upon the padded carrel cells. Once again, Late Night Bwog™ reveals more mysteries of Butler Library—the place which we all like to think we know like the back of our overworked hands.
Random Acts of Artwork
- “At the seashell’s center lies the cornucopia’s smallest door”
- An impassioned recreation of Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Butler Rose”
- Not marginalia but we really dig your artwork, anonymous graduate student!
We Really Need the Encouragement
- “Good Luck :) You can do it”
- No number of “No”s can stop our Butler ambitions
The Eta Artist
- We want to believe an impassioned Classicist tags his art with an Eta
- The cast from Its Always Sunny and the gang from Harry Potter walk into Butler Cafe…
Dead and/or Dying
- Correspondence so faded it could be from Ovids Heroides
- Good advice for both Butler and life!
Butler Gets Political
- Iliad, Feminism, Trump, its like a LitHum class from your nightmares
- The aesthetic of this marginalia really captured us.
All photos provided by the Great Spirit of Butler Library