The Glass Box and the Commonplace Book
12th November 2022
I want to start with a page out of history — the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, taken from one of his notebooks on religion. The words on this page belongs to a long and fruitful tradition that peaked in Enlightenment-era Europe and America, particularly in England: the practice of maintaining a “commonplace” book.
This blog has a page where I keep my commonplace book.