"Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" [.]

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• I was now familiar and articulate enough that I could bring it into a painting and still have it be the physicality you dealt with and not the imagery.
• In this sense, perception is originary, the foundation of everything. And yet, like the bottommost stratum at an archeological dig, perception is the hardest to reach.
• site-generated: (vs. site-dominant): The site in its absolute particularity dictates to me the possibilities of response.
• Here is almost nothing in the Columbus piece that could be subsumed to metaphor. It simply presents the plentitude of its presence.
• "Restriction can be a discipline to break habits, but it need not be a final state, and it's no state of' grace."
  

__ They were able to confirm that Carlsberg Elephant Beer tastes best when drunk within the aural context of' a particular tone (650 Hz.) and that varying that pitch only slightly renders the brew almost undrinkable.
__ Horse races: And the basic counterforce is that the moment people anticipate that something is going to happen, they've changed the character of the information on which they're basing their anticipations.
__ A passionate equivalence: attention to the incidental, the peripheral, everything that was beside the point. These were aspects of the wisdom of the race track.

__ The philosopher returns from the sun-drenched surface back to the everyday lifeworld of the cave.
__ He is perception's gadfly, annoyingly prodding the taken-for-granted, relentlessly combing the ordinary and uncovering its hidden wonders.

[Rainer Maria Rilke:] Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; our house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.

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