Even such stable abstractions as Desoxyribosenucleic Acid would stir into life. The laboratories which depend on depersonalize objects, green walls and abstract concepts would suddenly explode in a fit of anthropomorphism. The possibility is too challenging it would lead to a radical restructuring of every act down to the habitual grasp of a cup of tea. One could not stand the pressure of noticing how every particular object is capable of being revived, of being placed in a new context whether poetic or not. All around us is asleep.” But the problem may well be that “human kind cannot bear very much reality”. As Braque said: “Reality only reveals itself when illuminated by a ray of poetry. Every dead form that one can perceive is a sign waiting to be resuscitated. But then on further thought it became clear that the whole environment, including language, is always in this ambiguous state of limbo – somewhere between life and death. Later it occurred to me, on hearing further metaphors, that every Frenchman was a natural genius particularly so because his creative talent was conveyed with such complete insouciance and candour. Whereas to myself suddenly they were awake in that raw state of freshness, even wetness, of the newly born. The signs which were deeply embedded in the French language were partially asleep and inaccessible to him. He had just meant “look at that spire” and no such ludicrous sensations were reverberating through his head, because to him the metaphor was almost dead. A French companion turned to me suddenly and pointed toward the spire of a cathedral which had just come into view: “Jetez un coup d’oeil sur cette flèche!” The glance was painfully exquisite literally, “Throw a blow of eye on top of that spire” I could suddenly see my eyeball wrenched from its socket and thrown across the field to be impaled on that pin-sharp point. Once, when travelling in France, I had a rather unnerving experience which I am unlikely to forget.
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