It involves looking at everything one wants to describe long enough, and attentively enough, to find in it some aspect that no one else has yet seen or experienced. Everything contains some element of the unexplored because we are accustomed to using our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at. The least thing has a bit of the unknown in it. Let us find this. In order to describe a fire burning or a tree in a field, let us stand in front of that fire and that tree until they no longer look to us like any other fire or any other tree.
Guy de Maupassant
Byway
Cambridge, UK 2010
Cambridge, UK 2010
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