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More About Reading Aloud

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on February 8, 2008 - 8:39am.
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One other reason humanists read their papers outloud (and probably the main one, affectively) is because one reason one becomes a humanist is one loves the sound of words, not just their content. This is an addendum to an earlier posting, "Why Humanists Read Their Papers": http://www.hastac.org/node/1204

 

Aimless On Leave

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on December 24, 2007 - 3:28pm.
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Time. That's what a leave is for. Sometimes it is for escaping media, new and old. And sometimes it is for escaping into media, new and old.

The Page 99 Test

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on June 1, 2007 - 3:28pm.
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"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford
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Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing media star and critic, offers wise insights into the different ways we read, on screen and off, in this reblog from Locus Magazine, March 2007.