On Longing by Susan Stewart
"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale." This picture was taken wile laying with my cat, only three days after I had adopted him. Looking back at this picture, it makes me think about how small he was. But I only know of his smaller proportions because my hand is next to his face in the picture. If my hand was not next to his face, the picture would not represent Vader as a kitten. It could represent him at any time in his life, just because there is no reference to scale. "Capacity of objects is to serve as traces of authentic experience." Any time that I go grocery shopping is at 3 o'clock in the morning in my local Wal-Mart. During these trips, I almost always ride in the shopping cart and let whoever is with me push me around. This is the best part of any time that I go to the store. The cart (aka the capacity) is the experience that I long for the most when going grocery shopping. "The souvenir reduces the public, the mo