The Art of Book-Making
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The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong?
To those who can apply it to their own lives. or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialists?
The Art of Book-Making by Washington Irving: A humorous piece in which literature is created as easily as a cook might make a stew. He specifically discusses how authors go to libraries to research previously written works-sometimes centuries old and, partially or completely re-use the concepts discussed in these older works. 1819
The text is a forest in which the reader is hunter. Rustling in the underbrush-the idea, skittish prey, the citation another piece "in the bag."
James Joyce swag ↓ His habit with proofs was not to correct misprints but to add loads of new material.
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Amicitia etiam post mortem durans. ↓
(Friendship lasting even beyond death), emblem 159 in the book Emblemata by Andrea Alciato, 1608.
A vine shady with green foliage embraced an elm tree that was dried up with age and bare of leaves. The vine recognises the changes wrought by nature and, ever grateful, renders to the one that reared it the duty it owes in return. By the example it offers, the vine tells us to seek friends of such a sort that not even our final day will uncouple them from the bond of friendship.
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.
Zettlekasten ↓ , From well-known handbook on excerpting methods (Vincent Placcius, De arte excerpendi, 1689).
The process of reading a text can be made concrete, and the text itself may no longer be isolated, pristine and inviolate but manifold and pluralistic.
