"Think about anything often enough, from enough angles,
and it’s bound to splinter and refract. Our minds are like
kaleidoscopes, packed with mirrors we twist to see the
world anew. Sometimes we’re twisting consciously,
sometimes unconsciously. But no matter what, we end up
seeing patterns that are more a product of the tool in hand
than of the world on its other end."
— Henry M. Cowles in The Los Angeles Review of Books ,
October 11, 2022
Cowles on the book under review —
"… Patrick House’s Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness ,
a new book on neuroscience and its limits. Lest readers jump to
the wrong conclusion: The referent in House’s title, though also
poetic, is not Stevens but rather Nineteen Ways of Looking at
Wang Wei , an anthology of attempts to translate a four-line poem
from the Tang Dynasty."
"The referent" anthology is, according to Google Books,
"a close reading of different translations of a single poem."
The close reader is Eliot Weinberger, who appeared here in 2011 …
The "my own" link above is to "Pilate Goes to Kindergarten."