Double Exposures

• About this book
• Clematis – The clematis is not a snake.
• Japanese maple – The maple is on fire.
• House cats – Cats have never been domesticated.
• House boat – Our house had to be build like a boat.
• The sound of wind in the trees – The natives are restless.
• Argument – To forgive is divine.
• Open book – A human being’s an open book
• Seeing faces – Pareidolia isn’t so bad.
• Eye – A window can become a mirror.
• Fictional – Any memoir would be questionable.
• Enthusiasm – Faith should be upheld by reason.
• Loved ones – Love is both cause and effect.
• Nature and magic – Platypuses and worms should be magical.
• Imperfect copy – The language of nature may seem indecipherable.
• Unity of life – Anything else that lives is like us.
• Recapitulation – We reproduce our parents’s relationship.
• Art – You tend not to notice it.
• A choice – Free will could be an illusion.
• Mirror – I notice the glass.
• Mind’s eye – I assume many forms.
• Parody – A shadow of absurdity underlies every serious work.
• Individuality – An individual becomes free.
• Visceral – It grabs you unexpectedly.
• Certainty – What we may know may not be so.
• Symbol – Eventually even the eucalyptus stump decays.
• Music Is language – In the mind, one can replace the other.
• Pagliacci – It’s not all an act.
• Dramatic irony – We know more than the characters on the stage.
• Work of art – Art is made of more than its materials.
• Experience – An artwork is a fake experience.
• Postcard – A drawing of a stamp served as a stamp.
• Mockery – Reality begins with mockery.
• Authorial intention – The seeker must think he’s God.
• Swindlers – You can’t cheat death.
• Marriage – Two become one.
• Free will – It’s not free, but we have a choice.
• Magic – The world is full of magic.
• Doppelgänger – He thought they had met before.
• Remarkable – The town was unremarkable.
• Transposed – Differences might keep you from recognizing the similarity.
• Understanding – A hidden understanding exists.
• History – Even names change.
• Belief – Whatever you believe is less than a reality.
• O wally wally – I was alive, but then I died.
• Too smart – A smart person can try to make foolishness seem sensible.
• Mixed feelings – Love sometimes burns.
• Breath – Her breath moves the hairs that have fallen over her face.
• Normal isn’t normal – Normal isn’t normal.
• I – I is what I call myself.
• Parody – Any work of art also a parody.
• Listening – I repeat every word you say.
• Ostentation – Ostentation doesn’t make a genius.
• Reading – The writer’s context isn’t the reader’s.
• Double entendre – Unintended meanings are more interesting.
• Couple – Two become as one.
• “Do I wake or sleep?” – The mind interprets everything.
• UFO – Maybe UFOs are angels.
• Modernist and conservative – The modern is the child of the traditional.
• Lighting – Only a change of lighting separates comedy and tragedy.
• Release – Music is a release.
• History repeats – History repeats.
• Nationality – Nationality is largely arbitrary.
• Synchronicity – Accidents can be meaningful.
• Astrology – Astrology came before astronomy.
• Exposed – He got the notion from a book.
• Proxy – A true proxy is transparent.
• In one, another – We feel our own in another’s loss.
• Typical – Facts abrogate probability.
• Myth, man, milieu – The microscopic and macroscopic are mimics.