Daily Routines

Angela Carter

On weekdays, Carter said, she woke at 7:30 a.m. and spent the first part of the morning getting her son fed and dressed. Afterward, with the house empty, Carter would take a shower—or not—don “baggy trousers and a longish sweatshirt,” and set to work:

By about 10.30 I’ve slowly ascended to the top of the house where I work. Mark is always suggesting that I take up a flask or an electric kettle on the grounds that if I want coffee I come down to the kitchen where I find something to do or read. But I don’t see why I should be secreted away like some sacred object. I think I should be more integrated into the house.

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Walker Evans

Jerry L. Thompson, a student of Evans’s who became his protégé and unofficial caretaker, recalled the photographer’s morning routine:

Walker always had trouble, when I knew him, getting out of the house before afternoon. He would wake up, have breakfast, go back to bed, get up again, then go about the business of getting dressed. He encountered numerous distractions on the way to getting ready for the day.

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