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Roger Deakin Archive
Notebooks from the Roger Deakin Archive at the University of East Anglia Each of Roger Deakin’s three books, Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain, Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees and Notes...
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Roger Deakin and the Natural History Section
I’ve reread Roger Deakin’s Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees, not cover to cover but leafed through and read the chapters that snag my attention. Deakin died five years ago, his literary legacy being...
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Thinking and Walking: An Etymology
Richard Misrach: White Man Contemplating Pyramids (1989) Robert MacFarlane The Old Ways The relationship between thinking and walking is also grained deep into language history, illuminated by perhaps...
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Finished but not Consummated
1. Ah, yes, love, what they call love, it drives him to distraction, for it is one of that pair of things our kind may not experience, the other being, obviously, death. Hermes, messenger to the Greek...
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This Year’s Idées Fixes
My reading orbits an accretion of preoccupations. So far, this year’s idées fixes are the influence of the East on Greco-Roman thought (and by extension, modern thought), Epicureanism, the...
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Urban Departures
I am essentially urban in character, more contented within walking distance of a well-stocked bookshop and reliable eating place. Contemplative moments are snatched in art galleries, or during operatic...
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Heraclitus at the Edge of Language
“The truth is that Heraclitus attracts exegetes as an empty jam pot wasps; and each new wasp discerns traces of his own favourite flavour.” Jonathan Barnes, from The Presocratic Philosophers. He goes...
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Marking Territory
The captain who unloads waste in the high seas has never seen, or rather has never let, the countless smiles of the gods emerge; that would be too demanding, or even creative. Shitting on the world,...
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Digressive Interior Journeys
It isn’t often that a writer’s voice and concerns register deep enough that I end up scouring second-hand sources for first editions of their work. Jenny Diski becomes the thirty-first writer housed in...
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A Few Scraps of Wisdom
What else, indeed, have I learned from the masters who taught me, the philosophers I have read, the societies I have visited and even from that science which is the pride of the West, apart from a few...
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