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Nate:
from "Reading in a Digital Age," by Sven Birkerts, The American Scholar, Spring 2010 :: via languagehat

What thou lovest well remains—and for me it is language in this condition of alert, sensuous precision, language that does not forget the world of nouns. I’m thinking that one part of this project will need to be a close reading of and reflection upon certain passages that are for me certifiably great. I have to find occasion to ask—and examine closely—what happens when a string of words gets something exactly right.