Four reams of paper, each 15 pages, lined.
You take your notes, basically summary, implications and connections with other previously encountered knowledge. Every time you finish a ream you reread it and your next ream begins by summarising, and connecting the previous ream. Repeat ad infinitum, and once you get up to 75 pages, the last 15 are dead to you.
IIRC Foucault’s method was as follows
Four reams of paper, each 15 pages, lined. You take your notes, basically summary, implications and connections with other previously encountered knowledge. Every time you finish a ream you reread it and your next ream begins by summarising, and connecting the previous ream. Repeat ad infinitum, and once you get up to 75 pages, the last 15 are dead to you.
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