Eliot would later call “the still point of the turning world.”
For the very first time, Muybridge’s motion studies captured what T.S. Rebecca Solnit affirms this with (from a passage that helped us conclude the evening): “it takes a long exposure, generally, for something to make an impression.The great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described the art of cinema as “sculpting in time,” asserting that people go to the movies because they long to experience “time lost or spent or not yet had.” A century earlier, the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (April 9, 1830–May 8, 1904) exposed the bedrock of time and devised the first chisel for its sculpting in his pioneering photographic studies of motion, which forever changed the modern world - not only by ushering in a technological revolution the effects of which permeate and even dictate our daily lives today, but also, given how bound up in space and time our thinking ego is, transforming our very consciousness. As a librarian, it was an exciting experience to see how dialoguing and questioning contribute to the meeting of many minds around the central themes of the book, and how much more revealing a subject can be when we stay there to inquire. Like rivers, one never steps into the same book twice.
The terrain included: memory and interpretation identity and the recreation of identity Chinese landscape painting rushing water as a subject and metaphor the Buddhist idea of focal attention and global awareness Spiritualists and the Ghost Dance as a technology the book as a literary panorama the book as an “inverted biography ” and finally, to deep attention and “slow seeing.”
Much like the book itself, Book Club readers were extremely curious with far-ranging insights, and in the hour together we carved out a unique landscape upon which we roamed.
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