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Sue Mosher's avatar

I began keeping a commonplace book 2+ years ago and have really enjoyed both the physical process of inscribing those snippets in a journal made by a bookbinder I know and the occasional look-back to review a topic or even the whole volume (just one so far). I’m using John Locke’s method of indexing, detailed here: https://fs.blog/john-locke-common-place-book/. What I keep forgetting to do is to review and add quotes I’ve saved in Goodreads from my Kindle reading.

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All that Is Solid's avatar

I've also got a journal, but it's very easy to post quotes online. There are some authors I love so much, I think the whole of Alice in Wonderland is marvellous. And some authors like Swift and Johnson are much neglected these days too.

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Thomas Cleary's avatar

Ivan Ilych seems to have been a very astute observer of processes. We can learn a lot from him.

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All that Is Solid's avatar

Yes, he was. Thanks for your feedback. I am astonished at he predicted so well what we are currently living in when he was writing in the 1970s. He was called The Prophet of Cuernavaca, and like all prophets, he was ignored......

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