tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post662664774261265905..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: On writing in booksD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-3467465258541315002009-02-17T17:14:00.000-05:002009-02-17T17:14:00.000-05:00Anne Fadiman has something to say about this - car...Anne Fadiman has something to say about this - carnal vs. courtly book lovers:<BR/> " "Carnal lovers" will mark and dog-ear pages, rip covers or whole chapters etc while "courtly lovers,"... revere their books and leave them untouched."<BR/><BR/>it's from her essay “Never Do That to a Book.”<BR/><BR/>I'm DEFINITELY carnal - though I used quartered post-it notes to track my thoughts for a while - UNTIL I recently went back to an old copy of Rabbit, Redux that I had marked up a few years earlier - and most of the post-its fell out because the adhesive dried up.<BR/><BR/>I'm back to pens. <BR/><BR/>"To treat a book wantonly is a sign not of disrespect but intimacy." - also from Fadiman.Rebecca V. O'Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920443685663707856noreply@blogger.com