http://roughtheory.org/2008/02/06/bits-of-books/ Theory In The Rough Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://roughtheory.org/2008/02/06/bits-of-books/#comment-1599 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:40:50 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/bits-of-books/#comment-1599 lol – I’m not actually trying to pick on the students I do know that this is fairly common (and, of course, all of us read “bits” of books when trying to decide what books we’ll read in detail). I think, to be honest, the exchange struck me so strongly because I’ve been writing intensively, and in the process thinking so much about the interrelation of parts of an overarching argument – there’s an element of… mortality, in a way, in being reminded that this is, very likely, how whatever I will produce will ultimately be read…

]]> http://roughtheory.org/2008/02/06/bits-of-books/#comment-1598 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:32:21 +0000 http://www.roughtheory.org/content/bits-of-books/#comment-1598 to be fair, I know professors who will say the same thing….

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