Thanks for the lead, anyway, Doug.
The quote had a very Bergsonian ring to it. For Bergson, of course,
images just aren't visual, alone. (Hence the breath image as
Bergsonian.) Images and matter are identical and matter is a fundamental
"appearing" in the sense that it is luminous. This can also be touch,
sound and smell images which are not the product of human consciousness
since the body and brain are also images which act and react to forces
of matter as matter. As such images breath their own lives. They have no
need of human intervention to bring them to life. Just images, not
proper images with private ownership, privatisation, strangling the
breath out of them. Images as matter think thoughts. Stones do think;
contra Hegel's claim otherwise (see his Logic) that only humans can
think.
best wishes
Chris Jones.
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 00:01, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I am no longer sure, Chris, although I think I took it from Kiyooka's
> amazing Transcanada Letters, which NeWest will be doing a ne edition of
> next year... Roy was a painter, photographer, teacher of at, & a fine poet
> (his Collected is amazing); the Transcanada Letters was a collection of his
> letter / cum poems or something like, full of odd & wonderful apercus etc...
>
> So I think that's where I found it. Or perhaps in an interview somewhere...
>
> Doug
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