The contrarian position on commonplace books

Anthony Grafton on commonplacing

…like a good sausage machine, it rendered all texts, however dissimilar in origin or style, into a uniform body of spicy links that could add flavor to any meal—and whose origins did not always bear thinking about when one consumed them.

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