a Pelican Original
WAYS OF SEEING
Based on the BBC television series with
JOHN BERGER
Seeing comes before words. The child looks
and recognizes before it can speak.
But there is also another sense in which seeing
comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place
in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words,
but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by
it. The relation between what we see and what we know is
never settled
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on this always-present ganh painter Magritte
a painting called The Key of Dreams.
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The way we see things is affected by what we
