The Navidson Record

Quotes

Chapter 1

“	I saw a film today, oh boy…	”
	— The Beatles

Chapter 2

“	The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.	”
	— Mary Shelley

Chapter 3

“	It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.	”
	— Dorothea Lange

Chapter 4

“	Faith, sir, as to that matter, I don't believe one half of myself.	”
	— Diedrich Knickerbocker

Chapter 5

“	Raju welcomed the intrusion—something to relieve the loneliness of the place.	”
	— R. K. Narayan

Chapter 6

“	[Animals] lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in a world without time, pulsating, as it were, in a state of dumb being… The knowledge of death is reflective and conceptual, and animals are spared it. They live and they disappear with the same thoughtlessness: a few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over. But to live a whole lifetime with the fate of death haunting one's dream and even the most sun-filled days—that's something else.	”
	— Ernest Becker

“	While the pragmatic space of animals is a function of inborn instincts, man has to learn what orientation he needs in order to act.	”
	— Christian Norberg-Schulz

Chapter 7

“	But all this—the mysterious, far-reaching hair-line trail,, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all—made no impression on the man. It was not because he was long used to it. He was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.	”
	— Jack London, To Build A Fire

Chapter 8

“	SOS… A wireless code-signal summoning assistance in extreme distress, used esp. by ships at sea. The letters are arbitrarily chosen as being easy to transmit and distinguish. The signal was recommended at the Radio Telegraph Conference in 1906 and officially adopted at the Radio telegraph Convention in 1908 (See G. G. Blake Hist. Radio Telegr., 1926, 111-12).	”
	— The Oxford English Dictionary

Chapter 9

“	Hie labor ille domus et inextriabilis error	”
	— Virgil

“	laboriosus exitus domus	”
	— Ascensius

“	laboriosa ad entrandum	”
	— Nicholas Trevet

Chapter 10

“	Every house is an architecturally structured path: the specific possibilities of movement and the drives toward movement as one proceeds from the entrance through the sequence of spatial entities have been pre-determined by the architectural structuring of that space and one experiences the space accordingly. But at the same time, in its relation to the surrounding space, it is a goal, and we either advance toward this goal or depart from it.	”
	— Dagobert Frey, Grundlegung zu einer vergleichenden Kunstwissenschaft

Chapter 11

“	La poëte au cachot, débraillé, maladif, Roulant un manuscrit sous son pied convulsif, Mesure d'un regard que la terreur enflamme L'escalier de vertige où s'abîme son âme.	”
	— Charles Baudelaire

Chapter 12

“	Not every cave search has a Terry Tarkington who knows the cave like his own home. Six months earlier three boys had vanished from the face of the earth near a similar Missouri cave they had been exploring. Despite weeklong search operations of incredible extent, they remain missing to this day.	”
	— William R. Halliday, M.D., American Caves and Caving

Chapter 13

The Minotaur

“	Alarga en la pradera una pausada Sombra, pero ya el hecho de nombrarlo Y de conjecturar su circunstancia Lo hace ficción del arte y no ciratura Viviente de las que andan por la tierra	”
	— Jorge Luis Borges

Chapter 14

“	Let be stripped of your purple dyes, for I too once in the wilderness with my wife had all the treasure I wished.	”
	— Enkidu

Chapter 15

“	Mit seinen Nachtmützen und Schlafrockfetzen Stopft er die Lücken des Weltenbaus.	”
	— Heine

Chapter 16

“	When mathematical propositions refer to reality they are not certain; when they are certain, they do not refer to reality.	”
	— Albert Einstein

Chapter 17

“	Wer du auch seist: Am abend tritt hinaus aus deiner Stube, drin du alles weißt; als letztes vor der Ferne liegt dein Haus: Wer du auch seist.	”
	— Rilke

Chapter 18

“	Ashe, good for caske hoopes: and if neede require, plow worke, as alfo for many things els.	”
	— A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia by Thomas Hariot servant to Sir Walter Raleigh—a member of the Colony, and there imployed in difcouering.

Chapter 19

“	Contrary to what Weston asserts, the habit of photographic seeing—of looking at reality as an array of potential photographs—creates estrangement from, rather than union with, nature.	”
	— Susan Sontag, On Photography

Chapter 20

“	No one should brave the underworld alone.	”
	— Poe

Chapter 21

“	We felt the lonely beauty of the evening, the immense roaring silence of the wind, the tenuousness of our tie to all below. There was a hint of fear, not for our lives, but of a vast unknown which pressed in upon us. A fleeting feeling of disappointment—that after all those dreams and questions this was only a mountain top—gave way to the suspicion that maybe there was something more, something beyond the three-dimensional form of the moment. If only it could be perceived.	”
	— Thomas F. Hornbein, Everest—The West Ridge

Chapter 22

“	Truth transcends the telling.	”
	— Ino

Chapter 23

“	Surviving the House, Kalapana, Hawaii, 1993	”
	— Diane Cook