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Memo & Margin
Academic Garamond serif. Footnotes, references, slow argument.
digression
In Defence of the Long Way Round
A student once wrote 'relevance?' beside my best digression. This is my reply: an essay with notes on why the wandering argument is not a failure of the straight one.
commonplace-book
A Defence of the Commonplace Book
A notebook of other people's sentences sounds like a lazy hobby. I have kept one for twenty years and I think it is the best teacher I have had. Here is the defence.
reading
On Reading Slowly
Every term I ask students to read fifteen pages in a week and every term they ask why so few. A lecturer's case for the unhurried reader, and what slowness actually buys.