Saturday Reading revived (and revised)
I forgot to mention that I got back to Saturday reading again last Saturday. I snuck out for about half an hour and went for a coffee on my way to Waterloo. I was reading my own work. The reading was really editing. I'm reading my own writing and finding (at this point in the process) little errors, the ones that you say you don't really care about but that really bug you if they get into print. I don't like this kind of reading and rereading.
I also, earlier in the week -- I think it was on a Thursday night, got back into reading D&G. Otto has been really inspiring in this respect. I had fun with D&G when I first started reading them but then started not having so much fun. Reading them on Thursday was fun again. It was nice to be back in their universe and do some mental stretches with them. And draw some more cartoons...(see Monday February 6, 2006, "Two Cartoons;Or, reading D&G just before Xmas with the Carpenters running interference").
I'm finished with my editing (for the moment-until the next reader finds more mistakes ) so maybe I'll bring D&G with me this Saturday. One thing I did do that last time I read them was look to see how much I've read in the chapter I'm on. I've read about 30 pages of it but it's a long chapter...Another book that's going take me a long time to read...I also thought the post-its I've stuck in the book and the other notes I've made in the book are very graphically appealing. Writing on and in books I'm reading is pleasurable and not always a curse as I might have suggested in an earlier comment.
posted by Anne @ 1:51 PM
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Writing and re-reading these comments is an education for me because they're public but later reconsidered. Naked! I noticed that my comment following up on the "curse" was about the opposite of critique. I don't think it was a helpful comment (and too late for the towel) so this process has been instructive at teaching me what some of my aims and motives are for comments and how whimsy can appear so cemented in print!
I hadn't, before this MYoR project started, been privy to such candid, frank, and creative observations on reading and self study! (I've been reading Mark Strand and What the Best College Teachers do - and love them too!)
Funny about D&G - just before I had to return the book to the library I'd gotten to a chapter about masochism and sewing up the body - and I hadn't brought a flashlight! I close A Thousand Plateaus on a weird note. Nonetheless, I'm reading D&G's What is Philosophy now.
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