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- Sep 2023
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delong.typepad.com delong.typepad.com
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We use the term"canonical" to refer to such books; in an older tradition wemight have called them "sacred" or "holy," but those wordsno longer apply to all such works, though they still apply tosome of them.
they provide a broader definition of sacred/holy texts that extend to books which form the basis of a groups' identity and often involve orthodoxy.
relation to politics, gender identity, cults, etc.
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- Nov 2022
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analogoffice.net analogoffice.net
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https://analogoffice.net/2022/10/28/a-life-in.html
@Guy Reminds me instantaneously of this collection of farm themed pocket notebooks which inspired Field Notes: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/from-seed 📓
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- Jun 2021
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Yet books are curious objects: their strength is to be both intensely private and intensely social — and marginalia is a natural bridge between these two states.
Books represent a dichotomy in being both intensely private and intensely social at the same time.
Are there other objects that have this property?
Books also have the quality of providing people with identities.
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