<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>mikotorz · こさめ</title><description>Random paragraphs and thoughts.</description><link>https://mikotorz.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>On Marginalia, or Reading with a Pencil</title><link>https://mikotorz.com/writing/on-marginalia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mikotorz.com/writing/on-marginalia/</guid><description>Why the margins of a book are the most honest record of reading we have, and what a website could learn from them.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:language>en</dc:language><category>essay</category><category>reading</category><category>marginalia</category><category>notebooks</category></item><item><title>Reading notes: The Mushroom at the End of the World</title><link>https://mikotorz.com/writing/mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mikotorz.com/writing/mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world/</guid><description>Notes on Anna Tsing&apos;s book about matsutake, precarity, and the art of noticing.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:language>en</dc:language><category>reading</category><category>anthropology</category><category>ecology</category></item><item><title>A small rule for footnotes</title><link>https://mikotorz.com/writing/footnotes-rule/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mikotorz.com/writing/footnotes-rule/</guid><description>If a footnote would make sense read aloud in the middle of the sentence, it is not a footnote.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:language>en</dc:language><category>note</category><category>writing</category><category>typography</category></item><item><title>书房里的光线</title><link>https://mikotorz.com/writing/light-in-the-study/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mikotorz.com/writing/light-in-the-study/</guid><description>关于一间小书房、一盏台灯，以及在下午四点读书的习惯。</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:language>zh</dc:language><category>essay</category><category>书房</category><category>日常</category></item><item><title>冬のノート</title><link>https://mikotorz.com/writing/winter-notebook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mikotorz.com/writing/winter-notebook/</guid><description>一年の終わりに、紙のノートを読み返すこと。</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:language>ja</dc:language><category>note</category><category>ノート</category><category>季節</category></item><item><title>Why I keep a commonplace book</title><link>https://mikotorz.com/writing/commonplace-book/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mikotorz.com/writing/commonplace-book/</guid><description>Copying out other people&apos;s sentences by hand is the slowest and best way I know to read.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:language>en</dc:language><category>essay</category><category>notebooks</category><category>reading</category></item><item><title>Reading notes: Essays in Idleness</title><link>https://mikotorz.com/writing/essays-in-idleness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mikotorz.com/writing/essays-in-idleness/</guid><description>Kenkō&apos;s fourteenth-century miscellany, read slowly over one spring.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:language>en</dc:language><category>reading</category><category>japanese</category><category>classics</category><category>zuihitsu</category></item><item><title>On rereading</title><link>https://mikotorz.com/writing/on-rereading/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://mikotorz.com/writing/on-rereading/</guid><description>The second reading is the first one that is really yours.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:language>en</dc:language><category>note</category><category>reading</category></item></channel></rss>