7/1/2023 0 Comments The cows by lydia davis![]() ![]() The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in different positions, moods, and times of the day. The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence. ![]() Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. ![]() "You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. ![]()
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