On Seeing and Observing

From Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien: “ . . . [O]bservation requires inward-looking, a study of the very machinery of observation -- the mirrors and filters and wiring and circuits of the observor. Insight, vision. What you remember is determined by what you see, and what you see depends on what you remember.... A cycle that has to be broken. And this requires a fierce concentration on the process itself.”