It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
Samuel Johnson to James Boswell, in his The Life of Samuel Johnson
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Friday, December 17, 2004
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