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Sei Shōnagon's lists
Annoying things, tiresome things: the courtier's commonplace under headings.
Lovecraft's commonplace book
The beasts he never wrote: items that stayed notes.
What Locke actually collected
Acherusia, Ebionites, and the fraction that finds the page again.
John Locke's method
Locke's index of two pages: first letter, next vowel, and a way back to the item.
The letter · 1
The line you photographed last night. Ten we kept this week, and how to keep your own.
How to keep a commonplace book
A commonplace book is one notebook of the lines worth returning to. How to collect an item, keep it, and have it return.