“Go away,” says the stone.
“I’m shut tight.
Even if you break me to pieces,
we’ll all still be closed.
You can grind us to sand,
we still won’t let you in.”
Apparently we read only because what is written is already there, laying itself out before our eyes. Apparently. But the first one to write, the one who cut into stone and wood under ancient skies, was hardly responding to the demands of a view requiring a reference point and giving it a meaning; rather, he was changing all relations between seeing and the visible. What he left behind was not something more, something added to other things; it was not even something less – a subtraction of matter, a hollow in relation to a relief. Then what was it? A gap in the universe: nothing that was visible, nothing invisible. I suppose the first reader was engulfed by this non-absent absence, but without knowing anything about it. And there was no second reader because reading, from now on understood as the vision of a presence immediately visible, that is to say intelligible, was affirmed precisely in order to make this disappearance into the absence of the book impossible.
He perceived all the strangeness there was in being
observed by a word as if by a living being, and not simply by one word, but by all the words that were in that word,
by all those that went with it and in turn contained other words, like a procession of angels
opening out into the infinite to the very eye of the absolute.
I wandered through the courtyards and galleries,
on the ramparts and glacis, in the fortified and covered ways, and along the watchman’s paths.
It seemed to me I was inside someone’s head. This masterly, complicated, and well-conceived construction
of impregnable breastworks, bastions, salients, and redoubts appeared to me like a petrified cast of the brain,
and in these halls of stone, among the iron grilles and the chevaux de frise, I stumped along on my crutches,
aggressive and vicious as a crippled thought inside the mind of man, thought in its solitude, thought in its liberty.
Every opening on to the outside world is an embrasure for a cannon…
Let us cross a great modern capital
with our ears more alert than our eyes
and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes,
the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility,
the palpitation of waves,
the coming and going of pistons,
the howl of mechanical saws,
the jolting of the tram on its rails,
the cracking of whips,
the flapping of curtains and flags.
We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of the crashing down of metal shop blinds,
slamming doors,
the hubbub and shuffle of crowds,
the variety of din from the stations,
railways,
iron foundries,
spinning mills,
printing works,
electric power stations,
and underground railways.
The red book was on the table. The unread book was on the table.
The read book was on the table. A well read book lay on the shelf. That is a seldom seen occurrence.
That is a seldom (often) seen occurrence. That is a well (often) unread book.
That is a seldom (often) tragic occurrence. That is a well red book. The book remains to be
read. The book remains to be red. The book’s remains are red. The book remains to be unread.
I saw a doctor, a doctor. It was Anton Artaud. He was selected for the Royal Academy, no, that was Chekhov.
This is the Russian Theatre, it’s 1962 or so, the moralist of the venial sin is here, resigning over Gorky.
Doctor, a doctor. “The Seagull” defends Zola and Dreyfus, it’s the Moscow Art Theatre.
Chekhov is Godard. This is what I learned in school. This is what I thought: Artuad, Antonin.
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Claude Shannon
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R. A. Fisher
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likelihood function
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J. W. Turkey
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abstract painting
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