diff --git a/pages/las.quotes.md b/pages/las.quotes.md index d0e8c7f..1940e54 100644 --- a/pages/las.quotes.md +++ b/pages/las.quotes.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ We must therefore ask how the various symbols of the world of fiction relate to ----- #dimension #reading #temporality -This gives us the following difference between reading written lines and pictures: we must follow the written text if we want to get at its message, but in pictures we may get the message first, and then try to decompose it. And this points to the difference between the one-dimensional line and the two-dimensional surface: the one aims at getting somewhere; the other is there already, but may reveal how it got there. This difference is one of temporality, and involves the present, the past, and the future. It is obvious that both types of reading involve time—but is it the“same” time? +This gives us the following difference between reading written lines and pictures: we must follow the written text if we want to get at its message, but in pictures we may get the message first, and then try to decompose it. And this points to the difference between the one-dimensional line and the two-dimensional surface: the one aims at getting somewhere; the other is there already, but may reveal how it got there. This difference is one of temporality, and involves the present, the past, and the future. It is obvious that both types of reading involve time—but is it the “same” time? --- #temporality