From the diary of Silas Flannery:
One instance of the “reading” that follows:
Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler, trans. William Weaver (New York: Harcourt, 1981).
In the digital humanties, it’s now called distant reading. I’ll say it is.
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And here I am thinking distant reading is something I do when I can't find my glasses.
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