Excerpts from the Books that I read - II

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The requisite discussion of the relationship of the reader to the text could consist of a development of some key points of Sartre's study of literature. For example, Sartre contends in 'What is Literature?' that reading is neither a mechanical registering nor an impartial contemplation of marks printed on paper. Thus if one were to read each word of a text separately, its meaning would fail to emerge because the latter is not the sum of words but rather, the organic whole. Writing and reading are dialectically correlated and constitute the two moments of what is effectively a joint venture. In seeking to disclose some truth, the prose-writers embarks on a project of communication which requires the reader's participation for its realization. Only writing and reading together can bring it about that something as revealed, as a revelation is only such for someone. Consequently, the writer implicitly appeals for the reader's collaboration. In order to comply, the reader must go beyond a merely 'abstract consciousness' or what the writer is saying. Reading is therefore 'directed creation'; but the reader is free to reject the writer's appeal by refusing to take part. Such a refusal prevents the text from actually becoming a disclosure -- at least as far as that reader is concerned. As Sartre puts it, 'to write is thus both to disclose the world and to offer it as a task to the generosity of the reader.

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pat·tern /ˈpadərn/ 1. a repeated decorative design. 2. a repeated decorative design. verb 1.decorate with a recurring design. 2. give a regular or intelligible form to. "the brain not only receives information, but interprets and patterns it"

The Narmer Palette, a cosmetic palette from Nekhen dating to C. 3100 B.C . The palette depicts pharaoh presiding over the conquest of Lower Egypt, the two beasts with entwined necks symbolizing the unity of the new state. The king presides in his role as a great bull and is watched over by two bull deities. After J.E. Quibell, Hierakonpolis (1900) vol. I, pl. 29

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anthropology Philosophical anthropology, discipline within philosophy that seeks to unify the several empirical investigations of human nature in an effort to understand individuals as both creatures of their environment and creators of their own values.

Painting the Lady Truth eclecticlight.co/2018/07/19/painting-truth-when-did-she-emerge-from-a-well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Coming_Out_of_Her_Well

Recapitulation theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory