“The
reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest
minds of past centuries.”
— Rene
Descartes
Every so often I feel
inspired
(
compelled?) to revisit topics I’ve
explored in the past. My latest? Bibliographies, which I last
featured in July 2024 in “
Inspiring Citations.” That piece mostly
focused on sources listed in bibliographies sending readers off to
learn more about a game subject, whether for their own edification or
incorporation in their hobby activities...a process that perpetuates
itself as readers look at the bibliographies in
those
subsequent resources. And I’ll touch on that again here. But lately
I’ve been finding bibliographies also give
my
frail self-esteem a sense that my past
intellectual explorations have merit when I find sources I’ve read
in the past listed in more current, relevant work. Bibliographies can
send us off in new, exciting directions of
personal
and professional research as well as validate
our past readings to remind us we’re on the right course.
