Vision
The eye – unlike the ear – does indeed absorb things field by field, not all at once. Sight becomes king. Humans no longer know objects by hearing, tasting and feeling them.
Goenawan Mohamad
January 18, 2021
WHEN I was a teenager and – like many Indonesian teenagers of the time – was reading Karl May, I came across this scene in one of the volumes: the hero, ‘Old Shatterhand’ – a 19th century German who wandered around the Indian lands in America – sat facing the Sioux chief.
The mood was tense. Old Shatterhand was the ally of Winnetou, the chief of the Apache who were enemies of the Sioux. The meeting
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