After a month of annotating books, a week of outlining, and two solid days of writing, I am finally free of the Babbage paper. I proudly laid it on the front desk before my history class this afternoon and breathed my first breath as a free man.
I have temporarily posted it here. I took it down.
I found plucking the hundreds of sticky tabs like chicken feathers strangely therapeutic. Mel suggested that I leave them in for whomever gets the books next. It would have been nice if someone had done that for me.
You may think I have had my fill of Babbage, but working on that paper has left me with a burning desire to see the working Difference Engines at .
Update
I merged some of my writing into article.