And I love annotated books where someone's really battling with the text - I have a set of Judith Shklar lectures where someone's really done a proper, ill-tempered and not entirely fair filleting. Books are for working and thinking with!
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Not strictly books but archival: reminded of attending with
@huwlemmey a lecture on a British gay communist who had written to Stalin an extraordinary early defence of gay love, its political qualities etc. Stalin's handwritten note? "Idiot. Degenerate. Archive."Show this thread
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George Steiner wrote one that an intellectual is just someone who reads with a pencil in his hand. Only a fool claims to be an intellectual, but that books are just half of a dialogue is right.
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Someone died and I bought their entire collection of esoteric texts from a charity shop for 50p each. They are so heavily notated. Here's a note from the inside back cover of Gnosticism by Hoeller "This does not fit for me"pic.twitter.com/eQ3kAIGgAM
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That's a lovely and elegant rejection - I love it when people talk back to books.
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I love this note I once found in a copy of "The Man of Feeling"pic.twitter.com/MjILWF2Hn8
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I once woke up rather groggily on a friend's futon and passed the time waiting for him to get up by perusing the nearest book - a copy of Better Never to Have Been by David Benatar.* On one page I found "BULLSHIT!!!" pencilled in neat, small block capitals in the margin...
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Seconds after smiling at this already wonderfully on-brand situation, I heard through the wall my friend gently coughing himself awake, sitting up in bed, and quietly picking out the third movement of Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 on his electric guitar...
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That's incredible!
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