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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Quote of the Day (Jorge Luis Borges, on Reading Bad Books)
“I have always advised my students: If a book bores
you, leave it; don't read it because it is famous, don't read because it is
modern, don’t read a book because it is old.. . . If a book is tedious to you, don’t read it; that book was not
written for you.”—Jorge Luis Borges, Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature, edited by Martin Arias and Martni Hadis (2013)
I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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