Janina
@everythingstays
Janina
@everythingstays
Research is an art. A soft craft. A quiet ritual. (…) To research is to follow a scent. (…) What I learned from all this is simple: surface-level searches won’t do. You need to dig. You need to get creative. (…) Saved it. It became a breadcrumb for later. (…) Bibliographies are treasure maps. Follow the names. Follow the hyperlinks. Find the
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source: How To Research Niche Ideas in Literature and Philosophy
Advice from a Literature and Philosophy Student who loves researching...
/ https://gmwrites.substack.com/p/how-to-research-niche-ideas-in-literature
the fate of landmarks
abandoned places
“commonplacing,” as it was called, involved transcribing interesting or inspirational passages from one’s reading, assembling a personalized encyclopedia of quotations. There is a distinct self-help quality to the early descriptions of commonplacing’s virtues: maintaining the books enabled one to “lay up a fund of knowledge, from which we may at
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