The Art of Tetman Callis

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The opacity of reference

March 22nd, 2014 · No Comments

“Names, no doubt, are whimsical draughtsmen, giving us of people as well as of places sketches so unlike the reality that we often experience a kind of stupor when we have before our eyes, in place of the imagined, the visible world (which, for that matter, is not the real world, our senses being little more endowed than our imagination with the art of portraiture—so little, indeed, that the final and approximately lifelike pictures which we manage to obtain of reality are at least as different from the visible world as that was from the imagined).” – Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove (trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin)

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