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ON WRITING, NOTEBOOKS, AND HISTORY (opens the original)
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I’ve been reading Jillian Hess’s terrific Substack, NOTED, where she hosts her Commonplace Book Club. During September, we (her most devoted subscribers) share quotations we’ve pulled from our notebooks. I’ve used this as an excuse to organize the notebooks I’ve been keeping for 47 years.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!suol!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64e
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