Notebooks

Nine notebooks drawn from three literary traditions.

Each presents a single line — held in isolation, but part of a larger constellation.

Best understood together. Considered individually.

COLLECTION I

Devotion & Ruin

Three texts. One inevitable undoing.
I • I
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847)
I • II
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
I • III
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary (1856)
COLLECTION II

Aestheticism

Three texts. One uncompromising vision.
II • I
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
II • II
Walter Pater
The Renaissance (1873)
II • III
Vernon Lee
Belcaro (1881)
COLLECTION III

Solitude & Self-Knowledge

Three texts. One inward movement.
III • I
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations (1559)
III • II
Henry David Thoreau
Walden (1854)
III • III
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)