http://snarkmarket.com/2010/4800 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://snarkmarket.com/2010/4800/comment-page-1#comment-8268 Tim Carmody Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:08:02 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4800#comment-8268 Schopenhauer wrote in the introduction to <em>The World As Will and Representation</em> that every reader knew several ways to make use of a book without exactly reading it; "it may fill a gap in his library, where, neatly bound, it will certainly look well. Or he can lay it on the toilet-table or tea-table of some learned lady friend. Or, finally, what is certainly best of all, and I specially advise him, he can review it." Schopenhauer wrote in the introduction to The World As Will and Representation that every reader knew several ways to make use of a book without exactly reading it; “it may fill a gap in his library, where, neatly bound, it will certainly look well. Or he can lay it on the toilet-table or tea-table of some learned lady friend. Or, finally, what is certainly best of all, and I specially advise him, he can review it.”

]]>