take paper (draw)

'philipp hackert... an admirable landscape painter... always insisted on everyone, artists and dilettantes, men and women, young and old, whatever their talents, trying their hand at drawing, and he himself set them a good example.' 

- goethe italian journey (on this day in 1786).

to take paper, to draw is the title of a chapter in john berger's landscapes, 

'... three distinct ways in which drawings can function. there are those that study and question the visible; those that record and communicate ideas; and those done from memory... each type survives in a different way. each speaks in a different tense. to each we respond with a different capacity of imagination.' 

'for the artist drawing is discovery...' - john berger, the essay the basis of all painting and sculpture is drawing in landscapes also. 

horsemouth loves photos of book shelves. he loves zooming into them to read the title and he often looks up authors and books he doesn't know. 

he needs to get on with moving his books into the house. he's not convinced they will be dry enough where they are. (he checked today, he'll go and check tomorrow). 

he should draw more (again). he should read more. 

the wylder's hand is going well. he can't tell what is happening. there are some ghostly goings on (but our protagonist doesn't seem that bothered by them).  meanwhile goethe and kilvert are interesting fellows, thoreau seems to have go himself lost in the stacks. 

here a rainstorm. the flooding in ewyas harold made the news. the village shop has flooded. monmouth seems to have been hit bad. the rain has eased up but the floodwater will take time to make its way downstream.