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> John Locke released his famous work “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” with a prefatory section called “The Epistle to the Reader”. Locke commented on the length of his essay and indicated why he decided not to shorten it:

> > But to confess the Truth, I am now too lazy, or too busy to make it shorter.

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@schmudde @publicdomainrev

' ' Commonplace users "broke texts into fragments and assembled them into new patterns by transcribing them in different sections of their notebook." It was a mixture of fragmented order and disorder that anticipated a particular form of scientific investigation and organisation of information. ' '

Fascinating. Brothers and sisters from the 17th and 18th centuries, you are so close to us. We greet you across the great divide.

#JohnLocke #NoteTaking #CommonPlaceBooks #Zettelkasten #bricolage #ClaudeLeviStrauss