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Tag: reading

Don’t Like, Don’t Read

January 30, 2020October 19, 2021 ~ cafebedouin

"The onus was on the reader, not the author, to protect themselves with the information given. Basically, AO3 took the early fandom nugget 'Don’t like, don’t read' and made it policy."-rapacityinblue, on Tumblr. (I'm not going to try to get my mind around how a Tumblr discussion should be cited.) I found this discussion about … Continue reading Don’t Like, Don’t Read

How to Read Big Books

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 ~ cafebedouin

"...it is a principal task of a successful modern university to teach people how to read [big, difficult, flawed, incredibly insightful, genius books]. Indeed, it might be said that one of the few key competencies we here at the university have to teach—our counterpart or the medieval triad of rhetoric, logic, grammar and then quadriad … Continue reading How to Read Big Books

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