“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye.
(Reus Van Zuidwijk, Neerland’s Plantentuin, 1865-1867)
Eric Hobsbawm, Peter De Francia, c.1955
both members of the Geneva Club in the mid-1950s.This club was an opportunity for left-wing artists and intellectuals to meet. Those who attended their gatherings also included J.D. Bernal, John Berger, Paul Hogarth Derrick Greaves.
"There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places."
Alain de Botton
(Moon Night, 1885, Ivan Aivazovski)
IPHIGENIA : —But dreams have ensavaged me.
Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians (tr. by Anne Carson).