The Coyote’s Call…

 

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Detail of a drawing by Frank Xavier Tolbert, Jr. (April 1976).

“A picture held us captive, and we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably… .

“We are not contributing curiosities, but observations which no one has doubted, but which have escaped remark only because they are always before our eyes.”

Wittgenstein, commenting on the writing of Philosophical Investigations.



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