To cite a text is to read it. A citation asserts that I’ve read what I cited. But more importantly, the way we cite indicates the quality of our reading. To have the right to use a text, we must fully engage with it. When our disposition seeks error, we miss the truth of the text. It’s within this spirit that I engage with Jasmine Ulmer’s “Writing Slow Ontology.” At bottom, slow writing deserves slow reading.
