About the Occasionals
According to a now-forgotten book, folk of earlier centuries (I forget as well which ones) kept what were called “occasional books”, which were rather like scrapbooks in that they would write down extracts from other people’s works that struck them with particular force. I see no reason to refrain from doing so electronically.
Of course, in the Internet age one can simply link to the striking web page… but one’s choice of extract can illuminate oneself as well as expose others to the same idea. And besides, much of this material comes from those old, non-online media… you know, books.
Posted in About (Occasionals,) by R Cruickshank 09/08/07 05:00 PM Tags: occasional
Is this a dumb idea?
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