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And that's what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and nothing changing that feels like living.
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.
What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?
And in the evening concealed fluorescent tubes light the room so evenly that it is no longer illuminated, it is a pool of luminosity.
What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
Battle against obscurity
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
The sacred influence of light appears.
Music pierces the sky.
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale,
an atom, and the resulting detonation blinded them all.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
and the tumescence of O.N.A.N.ism.
Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light
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There is no darkness but is brightened; there is no distance but is illuminated.
Ome INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.
Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return.
Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen.
Hope clouds observation.
For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.
It is the role of objects to restore silence
A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.
Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [ ... ] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.
Above silence, the illuminating storms - dying storms - illuminate the silence above.
Go up in a big airplane. Go high enough, and you will see the radiation rainbow interference ring around the shadow of the airplane on the clouds below.
Apropos of the observatory,
The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
A vision of underground connections flashed before him again, only inverted. A towering construction like a tree strung with lights, shimmering, changing, and in the middle,
a darkness - the object or concept holding the visible together.
PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.
When the presence is like thunderstorm , the absence prevail deep dark silence.
When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
A quickening inside her, a dawning. She realized, quite suddenly, that she wanted to breathe the same air as Obinze.
When the field is very thirsty, the dark shadow of a cloud becomes the brightest light for the field!
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Om is that divine elixir that can clear away all the obstructions in our energy bodies.
Listen: the dark we've only ever imagined now audible, thrumming,
marbled with static like gristly meat. a chorus of engines churns.
silence taunts: a dare. everything that disappears
disappears as if returning somewhere.
Each person brings sound out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining.
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
The proper term is "occultation." The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.
Echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.
Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light.
Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.
To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.
The streets are empty. Wind skims the voids keeping neighbors apart, as if grazing the hollow of a cut reed, or say, a plundered mailbox. A familiar note is produced. It's the one Desolation plays to keep its instrument in tune.
Stars behind cosmic glass ... the light behind one's eyes
out of sight,out of mind
Oblong stones sink
slow and sideways. Shaped
by the weight of waves,
dutifully vibrating nature's
lunar-bound graces,
they wash ashore only for
closed palms to forsake them.
The cheerful will
cherish them, place them
on windowsills, or on graves.
There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind's home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you're so desperate to be rid of them that you'll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.
the spectator is the true vanishing point
In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell
Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red
Reverberance of hail upon the dead
Thunder like an exploding crucible!
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
Then, as horizons step,
Or noons report away,
Without the formula of sound,
It passes, and we stay:
A quality of loss
Affecting our content.
One loses one's eye in the lanes of sea phosphorescence & the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens.
Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence
("Roundness")
Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.
The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.
Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.
Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic space, was clearly under siege.
A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.
I've begun to picture my abdominal cavity occupied instead by a single glowing globe,
A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness.
He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. 'What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth?
Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.
The air
pregnant with rainbows
shatters its mirrors
over the grove.
- Air
A noise, and the past was chased away, dispersed into the shadows like smoke by the brighter, louder present.
Candle is an X-ray, it's a matter of wavelength.
Shadow is not an umbrage only but the proof of our Existence
A ray of light illuminates any darkness.
Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute.
Visibility is a trap.
Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
Une with diffraction, just as if we let a thousand
As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.
Beyond the visible is invisible.
nook in the rocks. From this place, we are invisible but have a clear
In the destructive element immerse.
Light makes invisible things manifest.
One eye filled with blueprints
one eye filled with night
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
Deep blackness waits outside;
a veiled inferno it attempts to hide.
We see no more than dark clouds growing,
but set inside, a fire is glowing.