M&D in "real life"

[Doug Millison]

At 8:09 AM 9/4/97, Paul DiFilippo wrote:
>but a copy of M&D.  But what a copy!  No dustjacket, front cover [...]
> various annotations on the page--underlinings,
>checkmarks, etc.

Mortimer Adler wrote a book called something like "How to Read a Great
Book" in which he advocates, among other things, taking possession of a
book by underlining and making marginal annotations. I've never been able
to bring myself to do that (I keep my notes and questions in separate
notebooks), something about marking up -- defiling --  those pristine
pages. And it irritates me to see such underlining and marginal annotation
in used books -- difficult not to be judgemental, I guess, and critical of
the previous owner's lame insights, and I realize that's an uncharitable
perspective, given how weak my understanding of certain texts might seem
from the point of view of a more sophisticated readers. But there it is.

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