Additional note to self: Isn’t it really sick how you the work you just sort of dump out is the work that people are like, omgod, amazing, more of this!!!? Meanwhile the work you spend an inordinate amount of energy on / can't wait to bestow on the world...barely registers?

Astonishment in the Terrain of the Familiar, by Alastair Gordon, 2022.

Back from paternity leave to discuss Walker Percy, The Smile, This Old House, and tales of HVAC horror
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Guy Davenport (left), Cormac McCarthy (right).📚💙
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@noahlivingston.bsky.social hey noah, we don't know each other, but this is just to say: i, too, love the work of fleming rutledge and own/am owned by a bernese mountain dog. i wonder how many us there are. perhaps a lot. cheers!