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160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
I think more about frames than paintings. My preference: altarpieces and images of the Way of the Cross. Between each station on the Way of the Cross is the empty wall. It goes unrecognized as the true frame holding in the pathetic magic of feeling without allowing it to spill from its borders toward the ocean of oil that is indeterminacy.
…his life, his real life, according to his new intuition, turned out to be in another place, in the darkness, veiled from events, and that life seemed more remote to him than the very outskirts of the universe.
he was going in circles and couldn’t tell the difference not at all
his language his memory said I have gone in circles
The cup, moreover, of coffee that is supposedly rising, at this very moment, to my lips, would be, in reality, in memory, not a cup, and the coffee, not coffee, no quantity of black liquid, steaming, covered in golden foam, that has not filled anything, anywhere, and has never passed to nowhere, having been swallowed by no one, bitter, lukewarm, down no throat…