“Congruity could be disrupted by a metaphorical complexity within a literal system. Literal usage becomes incantory when all metaphors are suppressed. Here language is built, not written. Yet, discursive literalness is apt to be a container for a radical metaphor. Literal statements often conceal violent analogies. The mind resists the false identity of such circumambient suggestions, only to accept an equally false logical surface.” — Robert Smithson [more / the collected writings] [my sense of language is that it is matter and not ideas - i.e., “printed matter”] Robert Smithson, A Heap of Language, Pencil drawing, 1966

“Congruity could be disrupted by a metaphorical complexity within a literal system. Literal usage becomes incantory when all metaphors are suppressed. Here language is built, not written. Yet, discursive literalness is apt to be a container for a radical metaphor. Literal statements often conceal violent analogies. The mind resists the false identity of such circumambient suggestions, only to accept an equally false logical surface.” — Robert Smithson [more / the collected writings]

[my sense of language is that it is matter and not ideas - i.e., “printed matter”]

Robert Smithson, A Heap of Language, Pencil drawing, 1966

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