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Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
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Analyzing our culture's pathological impatience with learning and the critical need for contemplation and time to claim true knowledge.
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And yet you present this discovery to people that we wanted to know more about big ideas, that we want our brains to be stretched.
As a culture, you're right, we seem somehow bored with thinking. We want to instantly know. Right, right. I mean, you know, there's this epidemic of listicles. Why think about what constitutes a great work of art when
... See moreFlorilegia were compilations of excerpts from other writings, essentially mashing up selected passages and connecting dots from existing texts to illuminate a specific topic or doctrine or idea. The word comes from the Latin for “flower” and “gather.” The florilegium is commonly considered one of the earliest recorded examples of remix culture.
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