23-01-2010, 03:39 AM
Sayeth Brother Klimkowski:
"The very first reaction of the viewer, on first viewing of frame 313, is almost always to look away."
I cannot tell you how many times I've found myself alarmed and puzzled in the wake of having turned away -- without intent -- from a scene that would have disturbed me profoundly yet, on purely an intellectual level, I wish I had viewed intently.
I've come to accept that we pre-view -- or better yet, pre-experience -- phenomena before it is permitted to rise to the level of consciousness.
Magicians -- in the sense that Jan, I, and others use the term -- understand how to stimulate this ... what shall I call it ... aversion response.
In the trade, it's referred to as misdirection.
But it's so much more complicated than that. And ultimately more simple.
"The very first reaction of the viewer, on first viewing of frame 313, is almost always to look away."
I cannot tell you how many times I've found myself alarmed and puzzled in the wake of having turned away -- without intent -- from a scene that would have disturbed me profoundly yet, on purely an intellectual level, I wish I had viewed intently.
I've come to accept that we pre-view -- or better yet, pre-experience -- phenomena before it is permitted to rise to the level of consciousness.
Magicians -- in the sense that Jan, I, and others use the term -- understand how to stimulate this ... what shall I call it ... aversion response.
In the trade, it's referred to as misdirection.
But it's so much more complicated than that. And ultimately more simple.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene