{"id":2588,"date":"2012-01-25T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2012-01-25T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:04:41","slug":"links-about-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/links-about-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Links about Commonplace Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Lucia Knoles<\/strong>, Assumption College: Commonplace Books: “a vital tool of erudition” <\/a>(and why you’re going to be assigned one for my survey class)<\/p>\n

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She quotes Confucius:<\/p>\n

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If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant;
if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone;
if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate;
if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion.
Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said.
This matters above everything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Denise at Frugal Homeschooling<\/strong>: Keeping a Commonplace Book<\/a><\/p>\n

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She quotes:<\/p>\n

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A commonplace book is what a provident poet cannot subsist without, for this proverbial reason, that “great wits have short memories:” and whereas, on the other hand, poets, being liars by profession, ought to have good memories; to reconcile these, a book of this sort, is in the nature of a supplemental memory, or a record of what occurs remarkable in every day’s reading or conversation. There you enter not only your own original thoughts, (which, a hundred to one, are few and insignificant) but such of other men as you think fit to make your own, by entering them there. For, take this for a rule, when an author is in your books, you have the same demand upon him for his wit, as a merchant has for your money, when you are in his.<\/p>\n

— Jonathan Swift
“A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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She links to a how-to-make-one article <\/a>at DIY Planner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Alan Jacobs<\/strong> in First Things comments on the physical act of writing versus the ol’ Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V<\/a>.  “Wisdom that is not frequently revisited is wisdom wasted.”<\/p>\n

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