…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

Guy Davenport

March 14, 2013

Tipping Forward

“Keep an eye on me, son. I’m having hallucinations.” Continue reading

Books, Life, The Examined Life

Emerson, Guy Davenport, Kierkegaard
October 24, 2011

A peripatetic theory of knowledge.

“…but I cannot tell you anything about a tree at the dog park.” Continue reading

Life, Nature, Philosophy, The Examined Life

Everst, Guy Davenport, Jim Whittaker, Maine, Nature, Nike, The Geography of the Imagination, Wittgenstein
June 29, 2010

First sentences…

…his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane. Continue reading

Books, Literature, Reading, Thinkers, Writers

Annie Dillard, Bernard Malamud, David Foster Wallace, E.B. White, First Sentences, Gabriel García Márquez, Guy Davenport, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Joan Didion, John Updike, José Saramago, Paul Bowles
May 16, 2010

…the meaning of doing a thing seriously…

The influences of history, when we recognize and manifest them, cease to be past influences. They become present. Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Photography, Thinkers, Writers, Writing

Beethoven, E.B. White, Eugene Smith, Guy Davenport, Hegel, Henry David Thoreau, history, Lee Friedlander, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Photography, Reading, Robert Frank, Tolstoy

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