# Where are "her italics"?

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**Created:** [January 28, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-her-italics/483439 "2009-01-28T21:13:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-her-italics/483439/1 "2009-01-28T21:13:41Z")

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In [Does May Day actually commemorate the birth of the Illuminati?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/40/does-may-day-actually-commemorate-the-birth-of-the-illuminati) Cecil mentions in passing Nesta Webster’s italics. Those italics appear to have been stolen by the fiendish international conspiracy of web transcriptors.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-her-italics/483439/2 "2009-01-29T00:57:36Z")

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I wouldn’t fnord be too concerned about that fnord.

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**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-her-italics/483439/3 "2009-01-29T02:41:50Z")

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> [@John\_W.Kennedy](#):
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> In [Does May Day actually commemorate the birth of the Illuminati?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/40/does-may-day-actually-commemorate-the-birth-of-the-illuminati) Cecil mentions in passing Nesta Webster’s italics. Those italics appear to have been stolen by the fiendish international conspiracy of web transcriptors.

I actually wondered the same, exact, thing when I read it. However, before I wondered, that, I wondered about the italic usage here:

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> Her books, such as _World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization and Secret Societies and Subversive Movements_, were immensely popular–the latter, first published in 1924, went into an eighth edition in 1964.

The italics are supposed to stop at the end of the first book, not include the “and” between the books, and then start again after the “and.” Unfortunately, the whole sentence is italicized, so I was unable to determine which book has which name. Is it:  
Book 1: World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization and Secret Societies  
Book 2: Subversive Movements  
or is it:  
Book 1: World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization  
Book 2: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements

Proper italic usage can be important sometimes 🙂

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-her-italics/483439/4 "2009-01-29T04:23:33Z")

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The italics are there. I have no idea what you are talking about. 😃

I suppose Cecil flogged Ed for that one. After thirty-some years, I think Ed has grown to like his floggings. “Cecil NOTICED me!” and all.  
Something I loved about _Illuminatus!_ was that most, if not all, of the references existed, even if they and Kerry Thornley had to make them up, and some of them appear to have been put back into print because of its popularity. Of those that weren’t available for 35 cents on the remaindered table at K-Mart, Robison’s [Proofs of a Conspiracy](http://www.sacred-texts.com/sro/pc/index.htm) was on microfiche (hey, it was 1978) at the local community college.