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ABOUT THE BOOK
This book presents the rules for fine information diet and healthy intellectual digestion. Originally written in 1907, it enlists the power of metaphor to make a prescient case for minding our intellectual diet and aims to make you see that it is one's duty no less than one's interest to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the good books that fall in your way. It reminds us that non-reading is as much an intellectual choice as reading, and admonishes against the perils of “over-reading”. Further, it deals with the power of unconscious processing in productive work, a sort of creative idling the value of which scientists have since proven. Finally, it turns to the “mastication” portion of the process, in which we make sense of what we've “ingested,” and stresses the importance of cataloging new ideas via associative trails that affirm connection-making as the key to effective thought.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures under Ground (later version came as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems, "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense..
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