The Light of the Dark (de-lighted at random) LO29304

From: ACampnona@aol.com
Date: 10/14/02


Dear At and Dear LO,

'I' 'wonder' 'knot' 'if' 'any' 'body' 'typed' 'Oradour' 'last' 'week'...

"The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies is very
comfortable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with
transmutations." Opticks or A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions,
Inflections and Colours of Light, Book III, Pt 1, Query 30

"I had forgotten how art can darken the world's mirrors to let in a
stronger light."
[Commentary to a painting from the 'Chapel' series by Mark Rothko]

"And also only in this manner do I learn to gain a new understanding of
what I have seen through eyes conditioned by prejudice. But this implies,
too, that the pre-judgements that lead to my pre-understanding are also
constantly at stake, right up to the moment of their surrender- which
surrender could also be called a transformation. It is the untiring power
of experience, that in the process of being instructed, man is ceaselessly
forming a new pre-understanding."

(Gadamer, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1976)

Love,
Andrew

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ACampnona@aol.com

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