collective notes

【intro】
1.cold tech: interactivity with formatting rules; warm tech: interact with books.  
2.The book, of paper from trees, is halfway to the forest, the greatest sourse of myth.
Rousseaus' Confession: I don't know how I learned to read. I only remember my first readings and their effect on me. It is from that time that I datemy consciousness of self.
【Comfort Books】
1.the ingredient to make a comfort Books:heady;get moved; 'to produce that little sob in the spine of the artist reader.' ; not overlooked; keep 'the decisive effect upon our life' going; map our sensibility and explain our great escape better than chit-chat; get through what Nietzsche called 'the horror of living'; serendipity and inaccessiblility; curling up; seclusion
books are the best munition I have in this humane peregrination.
—— Montaigne
2.totem-books.
3. serendipitious reading. adventitious discovery; the finding of a book to be in itself fabulous.
The books that prove most companionable are those we pick up by chance.
——Moby Dick
3.youthful reading. childhood daydreams surface in reading, and outlive childhood.
4. curling up with a book in a nook may incur: lose ourselves, steam of consciousness, cotigo of emergence, sense of existence.
Often it is a chrysalis experience and we emerge a different creature. We curl up to read, become disembodied, and might emerge re-emboied, changed.
【reading in adversity】
1.reading as feminine source of interiority
2. reading silently/privately
Modern culture enables both variegated opinion and a sort of herd-like consenus. Psychodiversity is worth protecting as much as biodiversity.
Reading silently mirrored the rise of a sense of self. Just as painting developed pespctive, and sulptures of people became more individual and less stylized, humans became more self-consciouly individual.
For book-lovers of any gender or level in society, it's been a lonf struggle to get reading freedom, freedom in effect to explore ourselves.
What architecture we are:such rooms, attics and secret passages known only to us, and dimly. There is so much to discover, from the safety of our favorite reading place, book in hand.
The renaissance library was a noisy place for conversation and display, rather than for study and contemplation.
【Cheap Books】
1. about chapbook: they are called blue Books in France, folk-books in Germany, string-sheets in Spain and Portugal.  They contain world news, pirated poetry, abridged novels, lost folklores and much useful information.
2.relation with classics
Chapbooks were both a gateway drug to literary classics and in themselves contained shards of greatness.

An apartheid in print culture between popular and elite cannot be sustained.
眼观六路，耳听八方的书贩。
They have provided comfort books for a troubled world. They have used the gamut of theatrical skills to sell their wares: costume and humour, speech and music. 
Shakespeare' Autolucus: I understand the business. It is to have an open eye, a quick ear, and a  nimble hand.
【Library Dreams】
1.reading in Library is like: fall asleep;  soporific; enter a state of hypnagogia; unconscious, slippery andpromiscuous whimsical/free/random browsing; 
Serendipity in the library or bookshop seems random and chaotic.
It seems that browsing mindlessly is somehow browsing mindfully.

Library stacks mirror the undiscovered self. In the library you can escape down a random aisle, be unprogrammable for a while, intraceable, explore other ways of being.

Browsing a library is to browsing online（jerked around by algorithms） what free climbing is.to a coach tour.
2. Library is a dream of connectedness.
3.The goddess in the Library
Anciently, goddesses were more associated with wisdom than gods: Saraswati in India, Athena in Greece, Minerva in Rome.

Women are good at peace and men are good at war.
4.Classifying Books
Dewey Decimal System  'DDS' classification.
【Collectors】
1.collecting in philosophers' eyes: Marx saw collecting as commodity fetishism, a symptom of late-stage capitalism; Pierre Bourdieu saw it as cultural capital, boastful trophies.
Collecting is to bulid a fortress against the triviality of the outside world.

We are a fractio of ourselves, and we all have moments when that knowledge drenches us like a sudden shower of rain.

If you think stories, not dates, two thousands years is just a vibration.
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