forgot it. “Oh, my! That was too much to take. Ahhh!” But there was substance to what he and other skeptics were saying, a stubborn logic that tugged at the hem. Mrs. Gallup’s technique depended on discerning small yet consistent fluctuations in letterforms in books made long ago, with the technology of a more primitive era. It strained credulity to think that the printers, setting the type by hand in 1623, could have duplicated these minute fluctuations across hundreds of copies of the First Folio, and in fact the
