Vol. 44 No. 2 1977 - page 266

"Some people want it to be the way they behave as if it is.
The discussion of artistic mimesis always leads to a discussion of
mimetic suicide.
But the possibility of continuing the original action after
grasping the teapot is dictated by the entry of the object.
And since the art is of the situation, the purity of the medium is
not affected by its reality.
The fact of whatever communication there is becomes a third
role."
"Have verbs anything to do with cause and effect?
The art of science constitutes the suspicion of language.
Does possibility come first?
The qualities of the fact are conferred on its expression, and the
fact forgotten.
Short-sighted people see auras in street-lamps.
'Seu les les decisions arbitraires permettent
a
l'homme de fonder
quoi que ce soil.'
Paul Valery
'Only arbitrary decisions allow man to found anything.'"
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