Category Archives: Perception

Enumeration

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Francois Lachance

The most magical moment for me in The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter is not the errant-running cat nor the kind helpful mice. It is the description of the result of the tailor’s labours. It must be the snow … Continue reading →

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Look See Listen Hear

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Francois Lachance

R.D. Laing in Self and Others in the first chapter “Phantasy and Experience” reproduces Susan Isaacs’s summary of the argument in her 1952 paper “The nature and function of Phantasy”. One of the views developed is that The earliest phantasies … Continue reading →

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See Think

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Allow me to draw your attention to Adam Mars-Jones’s essay “Cinematically Challenged” in the collection Blind Bitter Happiness. The author picks up the description of a film scene to reflect thus : The character is in a wheelchair, essentially, because … Continue reading →

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Found…

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Francois Lachance

… poetry in Robert Silverberg The Stochastic Man, these lines pages apart and yet necessarily connected by their improbability: pale petrol nostalgia penguins in the veldt The first line is slightly modified from its near copy found in the text. … Continue reading →

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