You may be able to tell from what I’ve said so far that I am not a fan of the highlighter. Highlighters allow you very quickly and easily to mark a text, but only by covering it with a bright color; and the very quickness and easiness of the process are inimical to the kind of responsiveness I’m recommending. (There’s something to Simic’s preference for the stub of a pencil and the intimacy with the page it enforces.) With a highlighter you can have a text marked before you’ve even had time to ask yourself why you’re marking it; and while you might be able to add a question mark or exclamation
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so what do i make of this? of course he is right. it is very easy to highlight. I do need to ineract more aggressively. I wonder what he would say about electronic reading. surely he is going to speak to that. And what is the method i need to use to get and keep such thinking. Is evernote the tool and if so, how can i work harder to capture material and tag it in such a way that it will be most hepful in teh future.
