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under controlled conditions. But to anybody first undergoing
the print experience there was an extreme specialism of sense,
not felt again, perhaps, until the movies and then, shortly
afterwards, radio. The Baroque painters did exactly as did
Montaigne in shifting attention to the peripheries of vision.
Poulet is quite right in saying (p. 43), therefore:
But to renounce the depiction of being for the depiction
of passage is not only an enterprise of unprecedented
denudation; it is a task of extreme difficulty. To depict
passage is not simply to seize oneself in an object which
fades away and by its own blurring lets the self appear
more distinctly; it is not to paint a portrait of oneself
which would be all the more faithful by the disappearance
of all the traces of occasions which had led its creation. It
is to seize the self at the instant when the occasions