GUIDE TO LIFE ARCHIVE

I Basic Philosophy

II Necessary Knowledge

III Productive Living

  • A: Practical Strategies
  • B: Emotional Well-Being

IV Autobiography

  • A: Life History
  • B: Experiencing The World
  • C: Inventing Reality

V Beauty

  • A: Analysis
  • B: A Collection

VI Art-Making

  • A: Techniques
  • B: Strategies

Appendix I: Picture Library

From: Robertson Davies, The Cornish Trilogy

“….just about everything is in books….we recognise in books what we’ve met in life. But if you’d read a few books you wouldn’t have to meet everything as if it had never happened before, and take every blow on the chin. You’d see a few things coming.”