Walter Pater claims that seeing guarantees nothing – it does not mean knowing, but in fact “is precisely what displaces knowledge” (Levine).
WHY ARE THERE TWO LEVINES?! Sigh.
UPDATE 1/24/12: Going back through my notes, this quote is actually this:
this aptly proves Pater’s point that, as Ruth Robbins says, “seeing is not knowing; seeing is precisely what displaces knowledge” (Robbins 186).[1]
[1] From
Ruth Robbins’ “Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee’s Androgynous Spectres”
in Victorian Gothic: Literary and
Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century, 2000.
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