in homage to Magritte's provocative pipe : "Ceci n'est pas une pipe".

and in connection with Deleuze's saying: The painter does not paint on a virgin canvas. The writer does not write on a blank page. But, the page or the canvas are already covered over with pre-existing, pre-established cliches. (habits of sight & habits of thought).

The cliches must be scraped away to find a singular vital space of possibility. For cliche is precisely what prevents the genesis of an image. (j

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