“I shake my memory.
Maybe something in its branches
that has been asleep for years
will start up with a flutter.No.
Clearly I'm asking too much.
Nothing less than one whole second.”
"May 16, 1973"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
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“"Maybe it has quick save?" [Silence. ] "…No. Of—Of course, that would be asking too much."”
WTF Is…? series, Day One: Garry's Incident (October 1, 2013)
Source: Principles of Gestalt Psychology, 1935, p. 176
Context: Even these humble objects reveal that our reality is not a mere collocation of elemental facts, but consists of units in which no part exists by itself, where each part points beyond itself and implies a larger whole. Facts and significance cease to be two concepts belonging to different realms, since a fact is always a fact in an intrinsically coherent whole. We could solve no problem of organization by solving it for each point separately, one after the other; the solution had to come for the whole. Thus we see how the problem of significance is closely bound up with the problem of the relation between the whole and its parts. It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.
As quoted in "King of the Hill" by Kelli Anderson in Sports Illustrated (5 August 2002)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
1975 interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7073441.stm
