in the light of / two states
*
(scan glitch; cropped to remove operator's ghost finger; levels 50 1.00 255)
in the accidental vicinity of
Donald McLean (1839-1903 *), “The treatment of fractures in the light of advanced histology and pathology” (Department of Railway Surgery), The International Journal of Surgery 7:10 (October 1894) : 274-276
University of Michigan copy, digitized October 16, 2009
from which —
the hazy realm of dreamland
our art
this state of uncertainty *
—
- 17.
In its nascent state, feeling is indistinguishable from sensation. At the outset, an odour and an idea awaken similarly. The onset of consciousness is quantitative, intensive. - 18.
Everything relating to feeling requires the existence of two states, the vague and the specific, the co-existence of the two states and the passage between one and the other.
Paul Valéry, Cahiers/Notebooks (Stimpson et al, eds., 2000) : 1:384 (on Affectivity)
tags:
the existence of two states; ideas; vagueness
Donald McLean; Paul Valéry