on reading
Diachronic vs synchronic reading, mimetic writing, and how seasonal publishing erases idiosyncrasy and exhausts readers
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And because when a reader picks up Shakespeare, there's a diachronic kind of suspension, right? That happens like, oh, I'm reading Chaucer. I'm reading. I understand that there's a diachronic layering, whereas you and I would read each other synchronically.
But this is really interesting when you think about the publishing industry. So a very common
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A rule I am going to try and follow this year:
For every book I read of Western philosophy, I will also read one book of Non-Western philosophy.
The idea is to not just learn about Non-Western philosophy, but to also benefit from the contrast of reading it... See more
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