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John Berger, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox,
‘Michael Dibb, Richard Hollis
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JOHN BERGER
British Broadcasting Corporation
and Penguin BooksNote to the reader
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‘eeoeet palais fas bean te amet a Proves Merton‘Sesing comes before words. The child looks and
recognizes before it oan speak.
‘But there Is also another sense in which seeing
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in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words,
‘but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by
it, The relation between what we sea and what we know is,
over settlod. Each evening we sce the sun set. We know
‘that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the
‘explanation, never quite fits the sight. The Surrealist painter
Magritte commented on this always-present gap betweon
words and seeing in a painting called The Key of Dreams