Sep 29, 2010 22:55
Food for thought.
from Dorothy Lee (1950) 'Codifications of Reality'
I have seen lineal pictures of nervous impulses and heartbeats, and with them I have seen pictured lineally a second of time. These were photographs, you will say, of existing fact, of reality; a proof that the line is present in reality. But I am not convinced, perhaps due to my ignorance of mechanics, that we have not created our recording instruments in such a way that they have to picture time and motion, light and sound, heartbeats and nerve impulses lineally, on the unquestioned assumption that the line is axiomatic. The line is omnipresent and inescapable, and so we are incapable of questioning the reality of its presence."