Have I ever said that Turner once actually had himself lashed to the mast of a ship, to be able to later do a painting of a storm? Which has never failed to remind me of the scene in which Odysseus does the identical thing, of course, so that he can listen to the Sirens singing but will stay put.
David Markson
Or was it possibly.. Nothing more than a?
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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How frequently was Anon. A woman?
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Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.
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Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover.. Or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
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