The look--see thread: from a Pynchon fave (and a fave of so many)

[Mark Kohut]

*“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle” is from
Orwell’s essay “In Front of Your Nose,” which was first published in the
Tribune newspaper, London, March 22, 1946.*

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:32 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> John Ruskin (1856)
>
> “The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to *see*
> something and tell what it *saw* in a plain way. Hundreds of people can
> talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To
> see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”
>
> Am Mo., 17. Juni 2019 um 20:09 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <
> mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>
>> I organized a town reading aloud of Mrs, Dalloway yesterday,
>> counterprogramming
>> against the day that is Bloomsbury.
>>
>> I did not remember how often the invocation to Look!---Woolf has in it.
>> At life. Some wonderful
>> words and repeated uses.
>>
>> Got a copy of John Updike's first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, for a number
>> of reasons, one of which
>> is to prepare a plist post about it and 1984, which John hisself invokes
>> in the two---2!--reissue introductions.
>>
>> But the first word of the novel is   "Look!"
>>
>>
>> The more opinions you have, the less you see". ----Wim Wenders
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:45 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Reminds me of what Josef Albers said 1933, arriving in the US of A, in
>>> his very basic English answering the question what he wanted to teach at
>>> the Black Mountain College: "To open eyes".
>>>
>>> Am Mo., 17. Juni 2019 um 15:46 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <
>>> mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> "I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me
>>>> more deeply and doesn't stop where it used to. I have an interior that I
>>>> never knew of..." Rilke
>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>