If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

“I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in …”

“I cried out not with hope of an ear but as accepting a shut door, darkness and …”

“Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, ma…”

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”