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Perhaps this appetite for cracking ancient scripts is best summarized by Maurice Pope, the author of *The Story of Decipherment:* “Decipherments are by far the most glamorous achievements of scholarship. There is a touch of magic about unknown writing, especially when it comes from the remote past, and a corresponding glory is bound to attach itself to the person who first solves its mystery.”
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Simon Singh
From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble. It is likely that these words are important for the author as well. However, they may not be.
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler
Try It Here’s an exercise to try: Take a four-to-five-item bullet list that is of importance to you. Draw a mind map for the items on the list (on paper with pen or pencil). Wait a day. Now spend fifteen to twenty minutes embellishing the drawing. Tart it up. Add thick lines; use color; and add little doodles, pictures, angelic cherubs from a Gothic manuscript in the corners, whatever. Review the mind map a week later. Any surprises?
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Andy Hunt
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