Alicia Quan on Substack
Notes on Emerson’s Notes
Name your notebooks: the names we give our notebooks designate a relationship—sometimes aspirational—with literature and the world of ideas. I wonder how my relationship to my notebooks might change if I named them “The Wide World.” Would my ideas become more expansive?
Nothing’s truly new, but you should still develop a
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