Flagged Passages 1: “Fresh Prince”
Flagged Passages 1: “Fresh Prince”

Above: Cover of The 48 Laws of Power, designed by Joost Elffers
I’m a pretty active reader. I mark up many of my books, magazines, newspapers, and after having done so that’s when I feel they really belong to me, beyond the fact of possession. It’s when the object’s picked up an additional layer of meaning from the generic text I got in the bookstore. Now there’s a relationship between what the author’s saying and what I as a reader am responding to. The name of this site, Lined & Unlined, could refer to the mixing of plain text and hyperlinked text. “Flagged Passages” adds text of another kind: highlighted text. This occasional series of posts will comprised entirely of highlighted text from a specific article, remixed and rereleased. For this first post in the series, I’ve chosen “Fresh Prince,” an article about the book The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers. It was written by Nick Paumgarten for the 6 November 2006 issue of the New Yorker. —RG
via Rob Giampietro
