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08/08/2004: "Arrows"

Vision is an act of the will. We don't see that, nowadays, because we are so well aware of the physics of light, the physiology of the eye, and the mechanics of the brain. But we choose to see what we see - cropping and composing the pictures like artists, evoking meaning from the images like poets, zeroing in on clues like detectives. The ancients were right; light is a ray that goes out of the eye until it hits its object. Seeing is an act of love, wherein the self is the lover, the eye is desire, and the thing seen is the beloved.