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"The famous cliché, 'God is a circle whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is everywhere,' was cribbed from a Hindu catechism concerning the deity called the One: 'an unbroken circle with no circumference, for it is nowhere and everywhere.' The idea of the cosmos as an unbroken circle was repeated in the Gnostic image of the world serpent forming a circle with its tail in its mouth. Closed circles continued to be thought protective, especially for workers of magic. A sorcerer's title from the first century B.C. was 'circle-drawer.' The circle invoked by analogy the full face of the moon, the pupil of the All-Seeing Eye, the circle of the visible horizon, and a thousand other natural forms.
Walker, B.G. (1988). Woman's dictionary of symbols & sacred objects. San Francisco: Harper & Row, p. 4.

"Horizons were explained as sets of ideas, beliefs, hopes and fears about the world and its contents that made up the individual. Clearly, different individuals, existing in different times and places can be expected to have different sets of horizons, different sets of beliefs about the world and the things in it. The most serious question that arises concerning understanding conceived in this way is about the very possibility of that understanding in the first place. It is argued that, if understanding is based on the intentions of life-worlds of people from other times and places, then one cannot have those intentions or life-worlds and understanding must be impossible. The most serious form of this question denies the possibility of understanding anyone else at all, let alone those from other times and places"
Barnard. M. (2001). Approaches to understanding visual culture. London: Palgrave, pp. 55-56.

look at the white dots "Setting off the slant of this work against Aragon: whereas Aragon persistently remains in the realm of dreams, here it is a question of finding the constellation of awakening. While an impressionistic element lingers on on Aragon ('mythology')—and this impressionism should be held responsible for the many nebulous philosophemes of his book—what matters here is the dissolution of 'mythology' into the space of history. Of course that can only happen through the awakening of a knowledge not yet conscious of what has gone before."
Benjamin. Konvolut N. 1, 9 (http://www.othervoices.org/gpeaker/Surreal.html)

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