Notebook № 002
Marginalia, or Thinking in the Edges
A small defence of writing in books, against everyone who flinches.
Somewhere along the way we decided that a book is a relic rather than a tool, and that a pencilled note in its margin is a kind of vandalism. I would like to argue the opposite: that an annotated book is a finished one.
The margin is where the conversation happens. The author has said their piece; the margin is where you say yours back. A clean book is a monologue. A marked one is a correspondence.
A clean book is a monologue. A marked one is a correspondence.
Placeholder body — replace with the real piece in the Studio.