Surprise when Annotating

I finished annotating The Role of The Scholar and I was surprised it was so easy. Durring class on Thursday while Ms. Mallory was talking about annotation i just kept thinking that it was going to be hard and it was going to take a really long time for me to do. But after i sat down in a quiet place and started reading the story section by section, three or more times each, and I really thought about it, I realized annotating is not so bad. In fact it is pretty fun. 

Now the story itself I found it kind of hard to read. There were a lot of words that I didn't know, but I took Ms. Mallory's advice and kept a dictionary in hand.

 I do believe that the Author of this story was very intelligent and he seemed to be a big thinker. I liked reading this story  because it made me think even though i'm not much of a thinker.

My favorite quote out of the The Role Of The Scholar is 

     "A ready man is made by conversation. He that buries himself among his manuscipts besprent, as pope expresses it, with learned dust, and wears out his days and nights in perpetual research and solitary meditation, is too apt to lose in his elocution what he adds to his wisdom, and when he comes into the world, to appear overloaded with his own notions, like a man armed with weapons wish he connot wield. He has no facility of inculcating his speculations, of adapting himself to the various degrees of intellect which the accidents of conversation will present; but will talk to most unintelligibly, and to all unpleasantly."

I was surprised annotating The Role Of The Scholar was so easy and I'm looking forward to doing more annotation.