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  • ACTION VERSUS CONTEMPLATION
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    ACTION VERSUS CONTEMPLATION
    JENNIFER SUMMIT / BLAKEY VERMEULE
    “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there’s Walt Whitman, in 1856: “Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house.”   It is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? To do or to think? To make...

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  • MEMORY'S LIBRARY
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    MEMORY'S LIBRARY
    JENNIFER SUMMIT
    In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Lib...

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