Day One Hundred and Sixteen
Waugh Abroad Page: 528
Tonight Veritas hosted Steve Olsen-Smith’s Melville Marginalia presentation. This meant two things to me. An opportunity to interact with people who love and understand books and an opportunity to fizzle on my daily reading. I started the day on the note by failing to get up at 7. First I “forgot” to set the alarm and then when I woke up a bit late I excused further sleep by reminding myself that I had to close tonight and so would be up and working extra late. Anyway the day managed to be fruitful intellectually despite continuing to lose ground in the reading department. I’ve officially reversed positions on annotating, underling and margin-noting. I will henceforth be marking my books as I deem appropriate. I’m sure you can gather why I had the change of heart today. I will only be a cautious advocate, continually reminding people that every thought that leaps into their head is not for committing to paper…that’s what blogging is all about.