Long Ways to Go Yet . . .

2/4/2022

On a lake in Wisconsin in a long-past summer.

The semester is now duly underway! I must say that my brain is not naturally built for linear regression (or statistics more generally). But, as with all things, I'll give it a go and try to pick up and master what I can.

I hope things are well with you wherever you are. We are in month 7,832 of winter here in New England, and I am beginning to feel the siren-call of springtime. I want little more than to open my door and feel a warming breeze . . .

On a more germane topic to our purposes, today I sat down for a bit of reflection on this website, and revamped the "About the Author" section. I don't know if this section holds value at all, or if it is just an exercise of the ego-self, but there you have a bit of a window into what I'm up to here: my process and person.

- Talbot

4 Comments

hidan

6/2/2022 01:08:52 am

hello talbot. Although i may have nothing of note to say, i will soon finally, hopefully aquire a nice pen with which to write the day..

say, after your work studying buildings, havent you ever desired, to tire, and to create one yourself?

thank you,
hidan

Talbot

6/3/2022 10:48:25 am

Dear Hidan,

No worries! You needn't always say "something of note." Sometimes it's just nice to hear from people. If you want a nice pen which isn't too expensive, you might look into TWSBI. Their Eco pens are quite nice.

To answer your question, yes. I like sketching out potential houses (especially hobbit holes), and my dream is to one day design the house I live in. We'll see how that goes!

What about you?

Thanks again for writing in.

- T

hidan

6/12/2022 02:23:36 pm

thank you for writing back

Mr. Ruskin entails in "The Lamps of Architecture" that part of what makes gothic work so beautiful is the communal effort of the crafts man

"I know not anything so perfect in its sim plicity, and so beautiful, as far as it reaches, in all the Gothic with which I am acquainted. And just in pro
portion to his power of mind, that man was content to work under Nature's teaching; and instead of putting a merely formal dogtooth, as everybody else did at the time, he went down to the woody bank of the sweet river beneath the rocks onwhich he was building, and he took up a few of the fallen leaves that lay by it, and he set them inhis arch, side by side, forever"
From page 256

i mamaged to gratefully aquire a bortoletti dip pen and now have formed a great appreciation for the prominince of fine tools and ink

thank you,

Talbot

6/13/2022 12:00:01 pm

Dear Hidan,

That book's on my reading list, though I haven't gotten around to it, yet! I would agree with Ruskin that collective accomplishment adds a great deal of meaning to a building; I think this is something we've largely lost in modernity. Or, at least, it's not felt to the same depth.

The image of an old builder putting leaves inside the stones of his arch is a beautiful one.

I'm glad you found a dip pen you like! I have five fountain pens, and use each lovingly! Once you begin, there's no going back :D

Talbot

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