on reading & literature
Sophie Burns on TikTok
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“Learn to divine books,” Emerson once advised a friend, “to feel those that you want without wasting much time. Remember you must know only the excellent of all that has been presented. But often a chapter is enough. The glance reveals what the gaze obscures...You only read to start your own team.”
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
People who read books on the tube
youtube.comThe Day After
youtube.com“that’s the interesting thing about these two works; they don’t save your life. They save your humanity. And in doing so, they save your soul.”
Inferno 1 – Digital Dante
digitaldante.columbia.eduI don’t know where this idea came from that students don’t want to read, that the “public” can’t engage with intellectually challenging material, and that the people who produce and teach and disseminate culture—professors, writers, curators, &c—need to dumb it down for people. Nothing seems more condescending to me. So I really appreciate @BDM’s d... See more
Celine Nguyensubstack.com