Zen’s Reviews > Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy > Status Update

"A language of ideas is, in itself, a phantom language, lacking in the substance of worldly things, those containers of feeling and experience, memory and time. We are instructed by the objects that come to speak with us, those material presences. Why should we have been born knowing how to love the world? We require, again and again, these demonstrations"