2026-01-28.9_notes and rain

i may write down & highlight a plethora of passages from a text, but soon i will have moved on to other readings & won’t look at those notes very often. notwithstanding that fact, they serve an important purpose: the supporting & intensifying of the process of information sedimentation.

the first (& in some cases second, third, etc.) read is like rainfall on a landscape. after it is over not much will have change to the unaware eye. but as is always the case (when there is a river nearby, which in m(y) mind there always is), the rain will have carried particles/sediment out of the landscape into the river. the intensity of the rainfall – along with the composition of the landscape at that particular time – determine how much sediment is mobilized to be carried downstream. and with time, said sediment will be partially deposited, some on the riverbed, some on the riverbanks & some on the flood plains, which together with the river (/more accurately as parts of the river) constitute the central places of the/m(y) present.

taking notes & highlighting are first and foremost ways to intensify the rainfall.