Perception

" There is a theory that when you aren't looking at 

       'Every object has two aspects,

something it doesn't exist. A situation obliquely analagous 

       the common aspect,

to a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat 

       which is the one we generally see

which isn't there. Certainly when I look at something, then 

       and the one which is seen by everyone,

shut my eyes, I can't see whatever it is - so can't be sure that

       and

 it's still there. I could give it a kick to reassure myself like 

       the ghostly and metaphysical aspect,

Samuel Johnson who, on hearing Bishop Berkley declare 

       which only rare individuals see

that reality was only a state of mind, kicked a rock to 

       at moments of clairvoyance

disprove him. But what I kick might be something else, so

       and metaphysical meditation'

 all I know is that when I open my eyes - it's come back 

again. I´m reminded of the Lennon-McCartney lyric 

       de Chirico

which asks: 'What do you see when you turn out the light? -

 I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.' "

Alan Fletcher