ABSTRACT
Outside the university’s library, dare an academic be seen reading an academic book on campus, even in the academic’s ‘own office’? The question is a nice cameo of the intermingling of time and space. For the reading of a book represents certain kinds of time and space. The activity calls for some duration of time and characteristically – as in the phrase ‘reading a book’ – a slow pace of time. The book’s argument has to be comprehended, its nuances observed. But where is this activity to take place, if at all?
