...l'origine de cette figure est certaine : c'est l'œil, l'oeil au singulier, de l'observateur singulier : « The eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it...nature this primary figure is repeated without end. » L'étang de Walden, objet hasardeux ou du moins contingent d'un choix de lieu expérimental, ne...

...Tyringham, Massachusetts NOVEMBER 2OO3 CIRCLES AND LINES The Traditional World and the Logic of Circularity The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...Augustine described the nature of God as a Circle whose center was everywhere and its circumference nowhere. We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense...

...nature in terms of circles in his essay "Circles" "The eye," he wrote, "is the first circle; the horizon it forms is the second; and throughout nature this...Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose center was everywhere and its circumference nowhere around every circle another can be drawn " Similarly,...

...enough in his "Circles," where the fluid and volatile universe asks us to respond in this double way: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end."2 The horizon thus formed is of course a primary figure in two senses. It cuts a line between...

...Portable Emerson, ed. Carl Bode with Malcolm Cowley [New York: Penguin, 1981], 228-40), which begins, "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second" and continues: "Everything is medial" (230); "Conversation is a game of circles. In conversation we pluck...

...governs the first series of Emerson's Essays and is embodied in the opening sentence of "Circles": "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second." Emerson's meaning, enforced here by a favorite pun and emphasized throughout "Circles" (when a man...

...Fragments, pt. 1, 522. essay finds form in the centripetal-centrifugal dynamic of the first lines: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...nature this primary figure is repeated without end." Such imagery exhibits the expanding and contracting energies so prevalent in a wide range of the era's...

...circularidad de la existencia. Recordemos las dos primeras frases del ensayo titulado "Circles" de Emerson: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...nature this primary figure is repeated without end" (Emerson, 2000 (1841): 252). En la versión de Lowell del poema de Móntale, "The Magnolia's Shadow",...

...philosophy of becoming (step by step, beginning after beginning), which encounters being at every step The eye is the first circle, the horizon which it...Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose center was everywhere and its circumference nowhere We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense...

...first circle; the horizon which it forms in the second; and throughout nature this primary picture is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there...