{"id":9829,"date":"2010-03-29T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2010-03-29T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:00:22","slug":"quote-of-the-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/03\/29\/quote-of-the-day-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Frye3\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Further to Russell’s post<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Even the biggest book is fragmentary: to finish anything, you have to
\ncut your losses.\u00a0 Nobody ever writes his dream book, like Coleridge’s
\ntreatise on Logos.\u00a0 That’s why we make scholars finish a thesis first,
\nthat is, a book which, almost by definition, nobody wants to write or
\nto read, to show how closely the reproductive & excretory systems are
\nconnected.” (CW XV:79)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Further to Russell’s post “Even the biggest book is fragmentary: to finish anything, you have to cut your losses.\u00a0 Nobody ever writes his dream book, like Coleridge’s treatise on Logos.\u00a0 That’s why we make scholars finish a thesis first, that is, a book which, almost by definition, nobody wants to write or to read, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-of-the-day"],"yoast_head":"\nQuote of the Day - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/03\/29\/quote-of-the-day-10\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day - 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