Among the books I bought at the used bookstore, there are sometimes books that the previous owner wrote in the margins. Since I bought a used book, even if there is such a note, it is not something to worry about, and it is rather touching. Reading this book a long time ago, I feel like I am communicating with the owner of the book, who I do not know by name or face, who wrote down my thoughts in the blank space.
The novelist Joseph Conrad was absorbed in reading during his life as a navigator, filling in notes in the margins of Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary. Conrad's first work, Olmeyer's Foolish Behavior, is the fruit of such a memo. Nabokov, famous for his novel Lolita, made notes in the margins of works by Flaubert, Joyce, and Kafka. It was used in literature lectures and published as a book. For him, the blank space was a 'work platform' in today's terms.
Author Edgar Allan Poe said: "Every time I get a book, I desperately want a wide blank space. The blank space is a useful facility for writing opinions different from the author, agreeing with the author, critical comments, and my own thoughts." The English word for a note written in the margin of a book is marginalia. It could be translated as 'blank notes'.
British author Charles Lamb said of his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "If you want to lend a book, you have to lend it to someone like Coleridge, who pays a hefty interest to return the book. Annotations make the book several times more valuable."
What does this mean? If you lend a book to Coleridge, you will often get it back with notes in the margins. It would be embarrassing to take such a note in someone else's book, but Coleridge's friends valued the note. Coleridge's notes were later published in five monographs.
These days, many people use their cell phones as a substitute for a notebook, but the notebook in which you write by hand with a pen is the most obvious. Paul Friedman, former vice-president of ABC, an American broadcaster, recalled Peter Jennings (1938-2005), America's top anchor.
'Peter carried a report book with him everywhere he went. Was it part of the body? I carried a small notebook with spring binding between the back of my pants and the waistband. It was written in astonishing detail. Everywhere in the world, Peter was like this.
"Let's see, I met and talked to this person right here last time. This is his phone number. Shall we call you now?" Of course all reporters do that, but Peter was really terrifyingly detailed.
It was when I went to Cuba. I needed a sugar cane field for a report on the Cuban economy. Peter looked at his notebook and looked around. "I'll go down the road one mile there is a church on your left. Turn left along the church to go a little bit not a sugarcane field. Are you sure? Eunikka did in the past." "
Let's go back a day. French thinker Alexie de Tocqueville (1805–1859) carried a notebook he made by folding and sewing himself when traveling to the United States and Canada. Everything I observed, thought, and talked while traveling on the North American continent,I recorded it in 15 such notes.
He organized his notes alphabetically by important subject items. When traveling in a van or steamer, I reviewed and reviewed my notes with a high degree of concentration. The result of that notebook was a classic in the history of political thought, <Democracy in America>.
Among the scholars of Joseon, there were many masters of memos. I took notes in the margins of the book or at least prayed in a separate notebook. This memo act and the resulting records were called 'order'. The profit of the late Joseon Dynasty compiled only such memos and published several books. Even Yeonam Park Ji-won was a memo geek. If you look at his <Yelha Diary>, he describes everything that happened during his visit to China. It is the result of taking notes of the words written on the pillars of the building that I saw while riding a horse.
I have a habit of taking notes, but I am not thorough. I try to carry a small notebook and pen with me all the time, but when I have something to take notes, I don't have it. It's like 'Murphy's Law'. Taking notes on my phone is still kind of awkward. I've read several books on how to take notes. The principle of memo that such books have in common is as follows.
First, take notes anytime, anywhere. Regardless of time, no matter where Second, check and organize your notes again. It means to review the notes you made later, even for a moment, and organize them if necessary. Third, make use of the notes and implement them. Rather than just taking notes, try to expand or develop it further. In summary, the principle of memo is 'record, organize, use'.
Lee Ha-yoon's essay, 'Memo Gwang', published in the old Korean textbookThere is this. The first part is this: I read it again after a long time.
“At some point, I started obsessing over memos, and today, I have become a memo geek who can’t live without throwing away these memos even for a moment. It feels as if a portion of the brain has been made into a pocket full of memo papers.”
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