\[ **BT: [[literature]]** ] --- # Jonathan Swift, 1667–1745 Anglo-Irish writer and satirist. --- [[Of the commonplace book, Jonathan Swift wrote, ‘a provident poet cannot subsist without, for this proverbial reason, that great wits have short memories.’]][^1] Swift called his system of commonplacing a ‘supplemental memory’.[^2] - see also: [[commonplace books]] [^1]: Sam Dolbear, ‘[[Dolbear, ‘John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books’, 2019|John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)]]’, *The Public Domain Review*, 8 May 2019, https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-lockes-method-for-common-place-books-1685/. [^2]: Sam Dolbear, ‘[[Dolbear, ‘John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books’, 2019|John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)]]’, *The Public Domain Review*, 8 May 2019, https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-lockes-method-for-common-place-books-1685/.