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"Without the use of a lens, the scene is not legible from where we stand. We comprehend the action, but cannot properly see it. A painting created to be imperfectly visible."
"Lucretius on love: ' This is the only case in which the more we have, the more the heart burns with terrible desire . . . nothing comes into the body for us to enjoy other than images, flimsy images, and vain hopes.'"
— Aug 30, 2024 09:53AM
"Lucretius on love: ' This is the only case in which the more we have, the more the heart burns with terrible desire . . . nothing comes into the body for us to enjoy other than images, flimsy images, and vain hopes.'"
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"And theoria is related to thea, 'a view, an act of seeing,' from which the modern 'theatre' is derived. The first theorists, he maintains, were those who undertook journeys--arduous and perilous journeys, often--to witness an event or spectacle in honour of the gods."
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