River running
Right through
Downtown
The James River contains many interesting historical remnants within dynamic proceedings.
“By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general :and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self.” – Jacques Maritain
City breaking
Everybody shaking
Staying alive
Early morning sunlight in an alley demands attention.
“As long as you’re having fun, that’s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it’s over.” – Barry Gibb
Circumscribed
Nervous breakdown
In the city
Spiritual entities lurk in protected locations.
“Everything is only as it is.” – Yuki Urishibara
Running duality
Sensual indulgence
Human spirit
Messages in the city occasionally evoke fascinating feelings.
“I heard it in the wind last night, it sounded like applause.” – Joni Mitchell
Instinctively recognized
Unifying characteristics
Pervade thoughts
The brain integrates various wavelengths of light from the surrounding world into coherent objects.
“In this sense-perception we are aware of something which is not thought and which is self-contained for thought.” – Henri Bergson
Putting business
In the street
Come back around
A red whisper of passion is located in unlikely environs.
“Now while my lips are living their words must stay unsaid, and will my soul remember to speak when I am dead?” – Sara Teasdale
Immanent perception
Context of memory
Justified expectation
A flash of sensation is captured at high speed on the way to Carytown.
“Even “unconscious” lived experiences are integrated in the context, which itself is given by way of perception and the directly grasping consciousness, or else the context is supplemented through such “unconscious” lived experiences.” – Edmund Husserl
No finer place
Everything’s waiting
Forget all troubles
River City sits at the fall line of the James River.
“A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.” – Rebecca Solnit
Existing state
Necessitated by
Preceding states
In the center of the city, two clouds drift by an underground parking entrance.
“Experience admits that there always is some relation between the existing state of consciousness and any new state to which consciousness passes.” – Henri Bergson
Feel the presence
Sharply differentiated
Discriminating perception
The near fragments the far and distinguishes attributes of the sections.
“There is a present-whole of nature of which our detailed knowledge is dim and mediate and inferential, but capable of determination by its congruity with clear immediate perceptual facts.” – Alfred North Whitehead