“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, December 18, 2011

Annotating a Book

It's a very different cognitive task than writing it. I like to keep them separate. I put in the notes but I don't worry too much about the exact page numbers and other details when I'm writing. It's a fiddly job and it's very inhibiting of thought for me. I just have to trust that I'm going to do it later.

But now that I'm doing it with Hyperobjects, I'm finding it very pleasant. I do have to check through some things to make sure I put them in. Then it's almost good to send I think. I'll read through it a few times for style.

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