millionsofmovingparts | selbstversuch | john j. may

2011
11. 03

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Course of Action -- I have noticed that, in general, the acquiescence conceded by a man in the role of reader to a rigorous dialectical linkage is no more than a slothful inability to gauge the proofs the writer adduces and a vague trust in the later's rectitude. But once the book has been closed and the reading has dispersed, little remains in his memory except a more or less arbitrary synthesis of the whole reading.

To avoid this evident disadvantage, I will, in the following paragraphs, cast aside all strict and logical schemas, and instead amass a pile of examples. (Borges, "The Nothingness of Personality")