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In Sight

In Sight RICHARD DEMING ON P. ADAMS SITNEY'S EVES UPSIDE DOWN EYES UPSIDE DOWN: VISIONARY FILMMAKERS AND THE HERITAGE OF EMERSON, BY P. ADAMS SITNEY. NEWYORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008. 432 PAGES. $28.

THERE IS A MOMENT in Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Intellect" (1841) that has always seemed to me to anticipate cinematic thinking:

If you gather apples in the sunshine, or make hay, or hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes, and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light, with boughs and leaves thereto, or the tasseled grass, or the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards. There lie the impressions on the retentive ...

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