Saturday, November 18, 2006

On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, II

"For both art and life depend wholly on the laws of optics, on perspective and illusion; both, to be blunt, depend on the necessity of error."
- Nietzsche, "A Critical Backward Glance," The Birth of Tragedy

Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Duke University Press, 1993. Pg. 171

1 comment:

skuo said...

The "error" being spoken of here by Nietzsche is a subjective point of view that distorts "reality," but informs a narrative.