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- From: mark@cambridge.apple.com (Mark Preece)
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- Subject: Re: Making notations in your books?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.165432.7287@mumbo.apple.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:54:32 GMT
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- In article <j2dr-rd@lynx.unm.edu> Roger Squires,
- rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu writes:
- > Agree, though I'd have to read some of the annotations first
- > and judge their quality :) I have a copy of a book called
- > _Albert Camus, A study of his work_, by Philip Thody, which
- > has two sets of notes by the same person: one set from when
- > he read it the first time, the other from a second reading
- > six years later (he wrote the dates in). Was interesting to
- > see how his opinions changed.
-
- I have recently become interested in a topic I studied a good deal as an
- undergraduate, and so have unboxed and re-read some books I annotated
- heavily two short decades ago. One good thing about writing in books that
- hasn't been mentioned yet -- it can an effective tool for maintaining
- your sense of humility. What an airhead that kid was!
-
- -mwp
-