m2,1 (reading and writing)

We can also reference m2,1 for a vision of the convergence of reading and writing, an idea of study and of interpretation, in the following of the "trace," but like these blog posts are intended to do, in many ways wander through issues raised by the Arcades Project itself, a wandering through that looks to participate in the study of the nineteenth century enacted by Benjamin, which is a mode of reading. Thus the blog posts read and write Benjamin in a manner that Benjamin reads, writes, re-enacts, or creates history, through language but through a mimetic or citational relationship to the crux of what is being read. Thus the reading experience is the following of a "trace" in the creation of immediate experience as we've been discussing it. It is a participation in idleness to this degree, but it is interfused with and almost indistinguishable from work or work experience, which is a giving heed to "a great many things," tracking the manner in which a citation or passage operates in the way one tracks an animal through the woods. "In this way . . . long experience appears translated into the language of immediate experience." In this framework, reading and writing have, as I quoted earlier, "no sequence and no system," are a "produce of chance," and have about them an "essential interminability," are a "fundamentally unfinishable collection." Finally, this thematic is repeated in m2a,1 with "Student and hunter. The text is a forest in which the reader is hunter."