The pianokeys are black and white
but they sound like a million colors in your mind
Tag: music philosophy colors interpretation racism piano
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
George OrwellTag: shakespeare classics drama interpretation authorial-intent
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' It is to turn the world into this world. ('This world'! As if there were any other.)
The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have.
Tag: criticism interpretation
A very single fact could emerge into many versions of truth,
depends on the number of eyewitnesses and interpretations.
Tag: truth fact interpretation eye-witness many-versions
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
Don DeLilloTag: reading reality writing literature familiarity novels interpretation readers realism translation robert-mccrum
The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include the spiritual in the form of a studied meditation upon the multidimensional qualities of the painting itself; or an extended contemplation of the scripture in the title, which in the King James Bible reads as follows: “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” The painting can also inspire a physical response in the form of tears as it calls to mind its more earth-bound aspects; namely, the very serious plight of those who truly are homeless in this world, whether born into such a condition, or forced into it by poverty or war.
AberjhaniTag: art compassion justice scripture mercy poverty homelessness culture interpretation paintings
I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas AdamsTag: perspective interpretation 586-587 wonko-the-sane
The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga
Gerald O. WestTag: bible interpretation south-africa
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
Joseph J. EllisTag: interpretation constitution
When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades.
Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering.
But the ones that are . . . happen again.
So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.
Tag: dreams dreaming dream interpretation remembering
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