29 July 2013

Grasp.

Innes, The Lonely Pine, 1893


Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

- Umberto Eco

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