Mastodawn

Oh yes, re-reading is breathing.

In fiction: mainly classical novels. Current works I tend to read only once. In maths: apart from texts that I use and re-use for specific topics in my work, there are a few classical expositions that I come back to for joyful "reading", just to appreciate the purity of the outlook. In philosophy/strategy: I have a shelf of classics that I come back to daily, not for study but for continual re-orientation.

PG Wodehouse, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, Heinrich v. Kleist, Novalis, Henry James, Anthony Trollope, Gustave Flaubert, Graham Greene, ...

Paul Halmos, Emil Artin, Andrey Kolmogorov.

Sun Tzu, Laotzi, Zhuangzi, Baltasar Gracian, Angelus Silesius, Martin Buber, Louis Althusser.

#Rereading #TheClassics

regina_nyckelharpista Nov 11

A really good read. As a biologist, I'm completely into the way nature is described in the series, reclaiming the land in a very spooky manner...

Art by Eric Nyquist

@jeffvandermeer hi

#Rereading #currentlyreading #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎Nov 10

"They know that when war was declared, we all, on the instant, professed a love for our fellow men, men thousands of miles away whom we had never seen, a love which they, Iiving beside us for fourteen years, had never felt."

#SundaySentence is from Peace Shall Destroy Many by Rudy Wiebe
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/61f81e76-12b9-4d37-827c-869d17afcd74

#rereading

mauri

Oct 12

Auch beim zweiten Mal nach 13 Jahren, macht mich dieser Teil immer noch fertig… Vielleicht der beste Teil der Saga, vielleicht das Beste was King geschrieben hat. #darktower #rereading

Igor Jagec Jun 6, 2025

So thrilled to have my Kobo Aura HD (2013) reactivated for a week now! Diving back into Ishmael by Daniel Quinn after a whole decade, and it's just brilliant. What's gracing your e-reader or bookshelf? #Kobo #eReader #Ishmael #DanielQuinn #Bookworm #VintageTech #ReReading #BingeReading

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Mar 7, 2025

A quotation from Horace

Use both ends of the pencil if you hope
to write what gets read twice.

[Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint
scripturus.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10, “Nempe incomposito,” l. 72ff (1.10.72-73) (35 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75466/

#quote #quotes #quotation #author #edit #editing #pencil #rereading #revise #revision #revising #writer #writing

Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10, "Nempe incomposito," l. 72ff (1.10.72-73) (35 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)] - Horace | WIST Quotations

Use both ends of the pencil if you hope to write what gets read twice. [Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturus.] The Romans used a stylus to write on waxed tablets; analogous to a modern pencil with eraser, one end of the stylus was pointy to engrave…

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George Macgregor Feb 24, 2025

A new exhibition from my colleagues within Archives + Special Collections!

'Re:reading' explores how new, innovative analyses of historic collections (e.g. digital humanities) reveals hitherto hidden knowledge and understanding.

#Exhibition open to all at University of #Glasgow Library. Access via main entrance. #rereading #archives #SpecialCollections #library #DigitalHumanities #scholarship

Joe B. Wall Dec 8, 2024

On happily outgrowing old favorites:

https://joebelknapwall.com/behind-the-curtain/#more-1810

#writing #rereading #JOMO #nostalgiasucks

Behind the curtain. – Joe B Wall

Nemi 📚🎶Oct 31, 2024

#rereading 12. Mai 1825 … „Denn wir kleinen Menschen sind nicht fähig, die Grösse solcher Dinge in uns zu bewahren, und wir müssen daher von Zeit zu Zeit immer dahin zurückkehren, um solche Eindrücke in uns anzufrischen.“ Eckermann Gespräche mit Goethe

WIST Quotations moves again!Oct 14, 2024

A quotation from Repplier, Agnes:

«
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/repplier-agnes/72505/

#quote #quotes #quotation #books #children #reading #rereading

"What Children Read," Books and Men (1888) - Repplier, Agnes | WIST Quotations Quotations

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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