▨ perception

"Herder points to the importance of an unbroken continuity, [...], that defies stasis; an insistence on depth, volume, fullness and the complex curvature of living surfaces, transcending the rectilinear (rectilinearity) flatness of the single plane of vision" p. 372

"[the left hemisphere lacks] the capacity for perception of temporal flow
[..] The right hemisphere perceives that there is permanence even where there is flow
[..] Music takes place in time. Yet music also has the capacity to make us stand outside time.
[..] Perhaps this going ‘through’ a thing to find its opposite is an aspect of the right-hemisphere world, in which ‘opposites’ are not incompatible, an aspect of its roundness, rather than linearity (rectilinearity)" p. 77f