Thanks to Howard and Jon for their excellent suggestions. I was mostly puzzled because I thought about the Torah which I think is on a scroll: how do you handle page turns on a scroll... Alain
At 09:25 PM 3/15/2004, Howard Posner wrote: >Alain Veylit at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But what on earth is "signalling a page-turn in > > Hebrew-fashion"? > >It could simply mean turning back to the previous page (for the da capo), as >if reading from right to left as in Hebrew. > >Less likely, I think, it could refer to an ethnic stereotype about nervous, >jerky movements. If so, it would the earliest instance I know of. > >HP
