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Reflection Sequence: Apple:
"the black and white of the film have to be reversed in order to represent the illusion of the apple as the eye sees it. Many apples are probably blue, having taken blue from the spectrum, but the eye, taking up the rejected red, ‘sees’ the apple as red.
"Whether or not the eye sees a negative or a positive of the apple, light absorption and reflection are mechanical considerations because neither life nor mind activity is involved until the essence of the picture has been articulated in the ‘brain’ and has been automatically referred to the memory filing department (the system of which is even more complicated than the worldwide Bertillon system of finger-print identification) for comparison with all of the apple experiences of the ‘see-er.’ The new picture of ‘apple’ is laid out on the table for comparison with the whole reference file by the executive officer ‘brain,’ who never sees the phantom captain although under his permanent orders to lay out the file in the captain’s outer study. Then ‘brain’ retires through the front door, closes it behind him, and the phantom captain enters from his inner sanctum to peruse the exhibit.
¶ Citations
- NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.43, 1938
