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veen · 3638 days ago · link · · parent · post: For everyone in the book exchange: The Necessity of Marginalia
Why do you consider it something 'so low'? Do you mind much if others do share their thought by writing in the margin, or to highlight phrases?
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Complexity · 3638 days ago · link ·
You will hate this David Foster Wallace archive then.
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user-inactivated · 3637 days ago · link ·
Couldn't be more wrong! :) It's fascinating. At that point, though, it's not a copy of a DeLillo/whatever -- it's a sort of exegesis of DFW that happens to take place in book setting. I'd never be able to, I don't know, read the DeLillo book as itself, while also absorbing the annotations. Terrible. Sort of like making a sedan into drivable art, which was briefly a huge fad in Austin. Enjoyable to drive by once but a pain in the ass to sit next to for an hour or, god forbid, drive.