“I stand in the street and watch the house and take some photographs, apologetic Parisians ducking past me. House-watching is an art. You have to develop a way of seeing how a building sits in a landscape or streetscape. You have to discover how much room it takes up in the world, how much of the world it displaces.”
Edmund de Waal
more infosource: The Hare with Amber Eyes (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 22.
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category: architecture, house, streetscape
medium: Memoir
“Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window—”
Rainer Maria Rilke
more infosource: “The Ninth Elegy,” in Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus (New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 57.
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category: bridge, existence, fountain, fruit tree, gate, house, pitcher, window
medium: poetry
“Unlike chocolates, houses are predictable: you always know you’re getting rot and decay and a long, tough mortgage. Eat them or put them back in the box—you can’t do either without a lawsuit or an ordinance hearing.”
Lorrie Moore
more infosource: “Real Estate,” in Birds of America (New York: Picador, 1999), 185.
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category: chocolate, decay, house, mortgage, real estate, rot
medium: fiction
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