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maigemu

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Dec 15, 2009, 6:00:44 AM12/15/09
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson
Alcott, "Table Talk"

SteveMR200

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Dec 19, 2009, 10:35:01 AM12/19/09
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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:00:44 -0800 (PST), maigemu wrote in message:
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>One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
> - Amos Bronson Alcott, "Table Talk"

There is then creative reading as well as creative
writing. When the mind is braced by labor and
invention, the page of whatever book we read
becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
_The American Scholar_ [1837]

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Steve

libreria

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Dec 21, 2009, 6:10:39 PM12/21/09
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SteveMR200 wrote:

> There is then creative reading as well as creative
> writing. When the mind is braced by labor and
> invention, the page of whatever book we read
> becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
> --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
> _The American Scholar_ [1837]

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To read well, that is to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble
exercise.
~ H.D. Thoreau 1817� 1862, Walden (1854)


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//libreria

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SteveMR200

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Dec 22, 2009, 8:05:00 AM12/22/09
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:10:39 GMT, libreria wrote in message:
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>On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:35:01 -0800, SteveMR200 wrote in message:
><ekspi557346qt02cf...@4ax.com>:


>
>> There is then creative reading as well as creative
>> writing. When the mind is braced by labor and
>> invention, the page of whatever book we read
>> becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
>> --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
>> _The American Scholar_ [1837]
>___________________________
>
>To read well, that is to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble
>exercise.

>~ H.D. Thoreau 1817 - 1862, Walden (1854)

To enjoy a book . . . I find I have to treat it as a
sort of hobby and set about it seriously. I begin
by making a map on one of the end leafs; then I put
in a genealogical tree or two. Then I put a running
headline at the top of each page. Finally I index
at the end all the passages I have for any reason
underlined.

I often wonder--considering how many people enjoy
themselves developing photos or making scrapbooks--
why so few people make a hobby of their reading in
this way. Many an otherwise dull book which I had
to read have I enjoyed in this way, with a fine-
nibbed pen in my hand.

One is making something all the time and a book so
read acquires the charm of a toy without losing
that of a book
--C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
_The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves_ [1986],
"February 1932"

--
Steve

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