Knowing that I was going to an experiment with a blog, I brought a few of my old diaries out with me to The Hamptons. They’re a rag-bag and misleading look at my life – spiking each year in the summer (when I’ve tended to travel) as well as the obligatory January 1st – 3rd [...]
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Marginalia
June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Literature, Writing
… one of the brilliant inventions of the paper bureaucracy was the idea of the margin. The margin is a place on a paper form, which is designed for writing things down that are outside, both physically and conceptually, the form that “the system” expects. The thing about the margin is that it is connected [...]
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