“I don’t believe in thinking of lower orders of creatures. I appear to be standing still and just observing them, but since it is written over a certain time, I am only standing still for a moment to observe them, so I haven’t yet achieved what they have achieved.” “I am emptying out every possible perception that I can have about them. “I have studied Zen buddhism quite a bit and I know about the ideal about being able to emptying ones mind and simply be without busy activity, so I suppose that I envy them a little bit that they have achieved that without even trying.” “I am much interested in the simplicity of their lives because across the road from them my life is quite busy running here and there doing this and that.”
“I don’t think I ever tried to take one subject and then exhaust it and say everything I possible can say about it,” Davis says about ‘The Cows’, which appeared in her book ‘Can’t and Won’t’ (2014). In this video Lydia Davis presents a piece called ‘The Cows’.
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