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Forms. The forms are a real concept. An ideal reality: una realidad mágica. As magic as Pygmalion and Galatea.1
Univocity. “My child 3⁄4 Star 3⁄4 you gaze at the stars, and I wish I were the firmament that I might watch you with many eyes.” In this fragment of Platonic poetics numbered 442,2 we become young and childish when lost in some infinite gaze, some infinite silence, some infinite regression to that first mover that flowered the stars once upon then, upon a riddle and a labyrinth: bearer of the microcosm and the macrocosm and that ineffable logos which, in eluding us, might find us infused with unexpected wonderings so that we may endlessly wander to “see and remark and say: whose?”3 We have been
1 Gerome, Jean Leon. Pygmalion and Galatea. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1890.
2 Barnstone, Willis. Greek Lyric Poetry. New York, USA: Shocken Books. 1972. 179
3 Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Song of Myself (6-10). Philadelphia, USA: David McKay. 1900. 35
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