diary / by Edward Mullany

I mentioned such conspicuous examples as those structures (a tower, a bridge, the pyramids) for how clearly they introduce their shapes into reality. And how lacking their locations might seem to us were these structures to disappear. But the same idea can be applied to any genre — a book, a film, a song, a painting. The best works of art seem to intensify the ‘thereness’ of reality, so that reality would seem lesser had they not existed, though it would not be lesser.