Commonplace Blog

commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.

commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Awakenings, a page at at time

[B]ecause my impulse to cross out or fiddle with what I had just written was so great at this time, we agreed that I would slip each page under the door [of my editor] as it was written.

Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)

Mary Whisner at 1:08 PM

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