Seeking Ghosts in a Glass of Water
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The slipp’ry God will…various Forms assume, to cheat thy sight. I’ve no idea if Dryden was right about the nature of God, but I do know that sometimes there is startling power in the abstract form. The eye transmits the image and the mind attempts to make sense of it. But even as one side of the brain struggles to recognize a logical pattern in the seeming chaos, the other side is content to appreciate the recondite contours and colors exactly as they are.
Are there ghosts in the glass? No, of course not. Are there ghosts in the glass? Yes, of course there are. What’s in the glass is what you see in the glass, no more and no less. There is form; there is color; there is texture. There may be ghosts.
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