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I generally have four or five books open around the house— At_the_intersection_around_the_house_turn_to_the_reading_desk.m4aI live alone; I can do this—and they are not books on the same subject. They don’t relate to each other in any particular way, and the ideas they present bounce off one another. … it is not things in themselves, but what happens between things, where the life of them is to be sought.And I like this effect. I also listen to audio-books, and I’ll go out for my morning walk with tapes from two very different audio-books, and let those ideas bounce off each other, simmer, reproduce (literally).m4ain some odd way, so that I come up with ideas that I might not have come up with if I had simply stuck to one book until I was done with it and then gone and picked up another. So, I guess, in that way, I’m using a kind of primitive hypertext. Octavia Butler, MIT, 1998.I am not a solitary Waffle_-_01_-_Asterisk.mp3thinker, or solitary learner, or solitary channel

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