“Whether what we sense of this world is the what of this world only, or the what of which of several possible worlds —which what?—something of what we sense may be true, may be the world, what it is, what we sense. For the rest, a truce is possible, the tolerance of travelers, eating foreign foods, trying words that twist the tongue, to feel that time and place, not thinking that this is the real world. Conceded, that all the clocks tell local time; conceded, that “here” is anywhere we bound and fill a space; conceded, we make a world: is something caught there, contained there, something real, something which we can sense? Once in a city blocked and filled, I saw the light lie in the deep chasm of a street, palpable and blue, as though it had drifted in from say, the sea, a purity of space.” — William Bronk, Metonymy as an Approach to a Real World, from The World, The Worldless (New Directions, 1964)
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 02:22:28 +0000
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