Monday
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The Sky’s Not the Limit (1) (Sunset, Monday, 30 August 2010)
William Van Doren, The Sky’s Not the Limit (1) (Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.
I added the numeral in parentheses because I have a feeling I’ll be using the title again. It’s related, in a way, to the dark areas people often call borders – and maybe that’s what they are – ultimately they’ll be whatever people say they are. To me they’ve always represented something beyond, or beneath – a substrate of what we call reality – a place from which our experience emerges at every moment. Of course, it’s also a border.
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an ellipsis
Interesting – as in, indicating something left out, something I wouldn’t know how to represent?
that's not the definition I was thinking of -- more like, here, I'm showing you some of this, please know that there is more out there
No, I think that's more what I was trying to say, or what I was trying to say was just between those two things ... (...)