Ducks & Rabbits

in the stream [1] look, the duck-rabbits swim between. The Mill Race at Granta Place tosses them from form to form, dissolving bodies in the spume. Given A and see [2] find be [3] (look at you, don’t look at me) [4] Given B, see A and C. that’s what metaphor [5] is for. Date and place in the expression of a face [6] provide the frame for an instinct to rename, [7] to try to hold apart Gestalt and Art. [1] Of consciousness [2] The expression of a change of aspect is the expression of a new perception. [3] And at the same time of the perception’s being unchanged. [4] Do not ask yourself “How does it work with me?” Ask “What do I know about someone else?” [5] Here it is useful to introduce the idea of a picture-object. [6] A child can talk to picture-men or picture-animals. It can treat them as it treats dolls. [7] Hence the flashing of an aspect on us seems half visual experience, half thought.