He wrote, The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement. He did not believe in absolute knowledge, but in amazement. Goethe believed that the world was a revelation read by our senses. The eyes combine senses and affection into a homeland. The eye spreads light gently in the retina, across blood and long-stemmed nerves that resemble frilled balloons or leggy trees of bladder kelp. We use our eyes’ refined sense of vision to admire the work of Titian or the Grand Canyon bathed in the copper light of a summer sunset. The human eye is capable of perceiving seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash. They are deep, resonant mysteries with boundless subjectivity. The colors blue and red are the most profound. The colors blue and red are the closest in color to the eyes of a goshawk. I have suffered a reduction in mental acuity, so I decided to acquire some basic motor and tactile skills like pushing around cool, gooey paint in mindless, repetitive motions to prepare for that newly vacated space between the ears. Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 1 Insights on Ellen Meloy's The Anthropology of Turquoise Contents
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