Who will not say that glosses augment doubts and ignorance, since there's no one book to be found, either human or divine, which the world busies itself about, whereof the difficulties are cleared by interpretation. The hundredth commentator passes it on to the next, still more knotty and perplexed than he found it. When were we ever agreed among ourselves: "this book has enough; there is now no more to be said about it?""
Montaigne, "On Experience"
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:32 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But having said this, I do not think this addresses what Joanna had in
> in mind, at least as I see it. Looking at documents created in a
> particular social-historical milieu can give you a lot of information
> about that milieu that will otherwise be lost in translation. It is
> kind of like meeting someone in person, and communicating with him/her
> via the internet.
>
> Wojtek
>
> ^^^
> CB: Yes. Joanna's recitation of her own revelations from reading main
> books is irrefutable.
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