Once, Turner lashed mast a ship several hours, a furious storm, later — David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress

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Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.

David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress

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