“the multitude of books, the shortness of time and the slipperiness of memory.”
These words were written by a 13th century Dominican monk, Vincent of Beauvais, and they resonate still. We might substitute the word information on place of books, but the idea is still the same, we are awash in facts, figures, ideas, information of all kinds and we find ourselves struggling to handle it all. it's comforting to be reminded that this is not simply a problem of the digital age, that really since the onset of publishing, even before the dawn of the full-on movable type-presses. Vincent's solution was to write a book, a massive one, some four and a half million words, in which he wrote down various bits and pieces of things that interested him, 'flowers,' he called them. They were the best bits of all the books he had read, thoughts that resonated, ideas to explore further, quotes. The book was also inteneded to be a sort of copendium of important information that others could read who didn't have the time to spend as he had.
Overload spread amongst the populace and out of the exclusive sphere of the elite, with the dawn of printing in the 15th century which made books cheaper and more readily available, and Vincent's practice was adopted in a number of ways--periodicals, and other tools for the continuing retrieval of dieas and thought. A common practice was the creation of 'commonplace books,' from the Latin, 'locus communis,' communal place, meaning the place where one would go for repeated consideration. I think this may have been a precursor for journalling and it definitely reminds me of blogging.
I keep commonplace books, along with journals both physical and digital (I use the Moleskine iPad app for digital journalling--very cool app). They are all ways that I manage the flow of information that both washes over me and in which I dip daily.
Umberto Eco, writer of many books, and whose thoughts litter my cb's, has a marvellous book, The Infinity of Lists--a compendium of lists of all kinds-as a writer, his works often tend to the commonplace--they are tomes designed to grant us the key insights we might need to explore-beit on beauty, or ugliness or lists to name but three of his works that fit this category I think.
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