I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.”
Johannes Kepler (epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died), 1630
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It is black, indifferent; it sidles away from human utterance. It is too far out in the unbidden world to reach. To desire it is to be humiliated.
Tim Lilburn, Living In The World As If It Were Home, 2002
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6 circuits of a pond / 18 exposures each / cumulative / splitThe end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Samuel Beckett, Endgame, 1957
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ORIGIN
early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘minor items or events regarded collectively’):
from French détail (noun), détailler (verb), from dé- (expressing separation) + tailler ‘to cut’ (based on Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’).
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Hermann von Helmholtz is credited with the first study of visual perception in modern history. In his Treatise on Physiological Optics, Helmholtz concluded that the human eye was optically quite poor and that the inadequate information gathered by the eye seemed to make vision impossible. His conclusion was that vision could only be the result of some form of unconscious inferences, that assumptions and conclusions must be made from incomplete data based on previous experience.
Extract from Moor Mill Pits (forthcoming), Guy Dickinson
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds;
it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin, The Four Chambered Heart, 1959
