Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 247. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2021-09-17 10:56:56+00:00 From: David Zeitlyn <david.zeitlyn@anthro.ox.ac.uk> Subject: [Humanist] 35.242: consequences, or how we work Willard I am increasingly unsympathetic to injunctions to read all of a text before citing it, since the time spent doing so could perhaps be spent reading other texts more useful to me. Implicit in a decision to read book Y is a decision NOT to read book Z. I am in favour of at least considering, looking into Book Z I leave for others to decide whether one should cite a book hurled across the room in irritation and then abandoned or one in which there is a useful nugget or discussion, accessed though an index which has at least some independence from the rest of the text Davidz writing as a magpie, all too conscious that more is published even in small subject areas than any one person can ever read... _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php