Alternative thoughts.
While writing this column I've (so far) taken four books off the shelf in front
of me. I haven't quoted from any of them, and chances are good that I won't. But
simply holding them in my hands, skimming through them, holding a conversation
with myself as I glance at their covers, focuses me, or points me in possible
directions to develop this writing. Trying to think through that one sentence
from Sherry Turkle becomes an adventure as I glance over the titles of the books
on the shelf and contemplate on how rifling through any one of those books might cause me to write
something very different that what's being written in the light of the books I
actually took down from that shelf.
Go to: Do I have to choose just one?, or
Go to: The shoebox advantage.