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 to motor cars — which is the son leaving off the g of sunlight and grass — Impossible to say, impossible to underestimate — wind, earthquakes in Manchuria, a partridge from dry leaves

things with which he is familiar, simple things — at the same time to detach them from ordinary experience to the imagination. Thus they are still " real " they are the same things they would be it photographed or painted by Monet, they are recognizable as the things touched by the hands during the day, but in this painting they are seen to be in some peculiar way — detached

Here is a shutter, a bunch of grapes, a sheet of music, a picture of sea and mountains (particularly fine) which the onlooker is not for a moment permitted to witness as an " illusion ". One- thing laps over on the other, the cloud laps over on the shutter,