Look at a written word, say, “read”,
– – “It isn't just a scribble,
it's ‘read’”, I should like to say,
“It has one definite physiognomy.”
But what is it that I am really saying about it?!
What is this statement, straightened out?
“The word falls”, one is tempted to explain,
“into a mould of my mind
long prepared for
it.”
But as I don't perceive both the word and a mould, the
metaphor of the word's fitting a mould can't allude to
an experience of comparing the hollow and the solid shape before they are
fitted together, but rather to an experience of seeing the solid shape
accentuated by a particular background.
1) ,
11)
.
144.
1) would be the picture of the hollow and the
solid shape before they are fitted together.
We
see here || here see
two circles and can compare
them.
11) is the picture of the solid in
the hollow.
There is only one circle, and what we call the mould only accentuates,
or as we sometimes said, emphasizes it.