Notebook Stream
17 Entries
All Essays & Marginalia
Elsewhere
What a secondhand shop’s previous owner leaves behind
A pressed leaf, a receipt used as a bookmark, somebody else's marginal notes — the accidental archive inside a used book.
Elsewhere
Walking produces sentences, not just steps
The relationship between walking and thinking is real but not the one people usually describe.
Notebook
Three ways of marking up the same paragraph
Underline, marginal note, and dog-ear each record a different kind of reaction — and I keep forgetting that.
Reading
A book I clearly did not read at eleven
I could describe the plot in detail. I could not, it turned out, actually tell you what the book was about.
Essays
Rereading is not reading again
The second reading of a book happens between a different reader and a different book than the first one did.
Essays
The commonplace book, before it was a metaphor
Before 'commonplace' meant ordinary, it named a specific kind of notebook — and a specific kind of reading.
Essays
What the word marginalia actually covers
Not just underlining. The word covers a much wider habit than the pencil marks most people picture.