Recog ch 2

[alice wellintown]

> for me the idea cropped up when he talks about "the vanishing point"
> which is suggestive but I'm not sure how to express why that makes me
> think about post-life planning...

He shows the lines and the vanishing point to his father; the tension
WG builds into this moment makes it seem like a dramatic moment, even
a climax of some kind. But of what? Is it that Wyatt has discovered a
basic technique of the artist, one that has been used to add realism
to works in European art for over 600 years? Is there also some
metaphysical epiphany?

Mark mentioned Nietzsche. Perspectivism and art, falsification, masks.

Again, Wyatt is still an unfinished man. May and Dad, and the others,
like the doctors who pump his blood out and the blood of others in, ca
not abide this, fot it would allow that Man is, like God, a Creator.


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> mainly, though, the best indicator is that he doesn't act in his own
> epicurean interests, but refuses Cremer's kind offer --
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> If he doesn't believe in some kind of transcendental rightness that he
> has to answer to, be judged by, and expect non-earthly rewards from,
> then why does he do that?
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