Tuesday, September 19, 2023

“A fairly precise notion of the book”

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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comments: 2

J D Lowe said...

And here I am thinking distant reading is something I do when I can't find my glasses.

Michael Leddy said...

Yes, reading sometimes resembles the playing of a slide whistle.