Word: unread
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...sound rule of travel, and of intellectual delight, to go where the others are not. Therefore, plunge back into books--not texts read in pixels off the screen, but read, rather, with their sweet weight of thought held in the hand. Go where others are not--to wonderful unread writers like Seneca or Plutarch, for example, whom I read during our blackout. They understood certain essentials that we have misplaced...
...British society. But there will be in that cast one or two really unforgettable characters, and sometimes the innocents will be menaced in really novel ways. And because I love this combination of the familiar and the novel, I replaced Dombey and Sons with real regret, noticing how few unread volumes of Dickens remained...
This week I was going to write about the ins and outs of sectional politics and its stock standard movers and shakers. You know, all those various distinct personalities that make up a typical Harvard discussion section, in all its awkward-silence-filled, unread and uninformed glory. Such a line of conversation amongst friends usually plays out in a fairly predictable way. Everyone in the group groans loudly in disgust at predictable tropes like The Freshman, who has highlighted the entire sourcebook (with annotations!); The Jaded Thesis-Writing Senior, usually hailing from Social Studies or Hist and Lit, who stumbles...
...read and find messages. Best new feature: colored flags that you can attach to messages in your In box so they don't get lost in the clutter. Outlook sorts messages into folders for "today," "yesterday," "last week," and so on. It also automatically creates separate folders for all unread messages or all messages you've flagged. And for the first time, the program has a built-in spam filter. The most interesting feature is the ability to prevent people from forwarding messages you send them; however, it's too complicated...
...that. Then, around November came The Search for God at Harvard, evidently the book that predated and inspired Finding God at Harvard. Christmas brought me a copy of The Search for God, and in early spring came The Politics of Jesus. The books collected on a shelf but went unread, reflecting my guilty-but-lazy position on the matter. The books occasionally escaped the shelf and got lost in the room, prompting my roommates to crack, “They should write a book called Finding Finding God at Harvard...