unearths some literary gems.
From Reading Style: A Life in Sentences, by Jenny Davidson:
***I have long had a yen to write a little book on the history from earliest times to the present day of the stage direction.***[Bonus: Davidson quotes (someone else quoting) this line from Ronald Firbank, which I don't recall hearing before: "I think nothing of filing fifty pages down to make a brief, crisp paragraph or even a row of dots."]