November 25, 2006
Photocaption Non Sequitur
Kings do not touch doors.
They do not know that happiness: to push before them with kindness or rudeness one of these great familiar panels, to turn around towards it to put it back in place -- to hold it in one's arms.
...The happiness of grabbing by the porcelain knot of its belly one of these huge single obstacles; this quick grappling by which, for a moment, progress is hindered, as the eye opens & the entire body fits into its new environment.
With a friendly hand he holds it a while longer before pushing it back decidedly thus shutting himself in — of which, he, by the click of the powerful & well-oiled spring, is pleasantly assured. — Francis Ponge, "the pleasures of the door"
Posted by Stubbornson at November 25, 2006 01:33 PM