Loss, Melancholy and Reverie
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https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v3i2.348Keywords:
loss, melancholy, reverie, study, readingAbstract
Technology damages our sense of how to read and study as scholars. This loss (of knowing how to read and study) makes for melancholy. Melancholy is brought on as a result of not being able to find spaces of reverie in which to read and study. We need spaces of reverie in which to read and study. We need spaces of reverie so as to delve deeply into our studies and to produce and generate knowledge.References
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