Wednesday, March 08, 2006

How to Read (Instead of Just Fucking Around on the Internet)


Hang a painting by Carlo Dolci beside a Cosimo Tura. You cannot prevent Mr. Buggins from preferring the former, but you can very seriously impede his setting up a false tradition of teaching on the assumption that Tura has never existed, or that the qualities of the Tura are non-existent or outside the scope of the possible.

Ezra Pound
ABC of Reading, p. 26

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