Ways of Seeing - John Berger Notebooks The spout is just the

The spout is just the right size for drinking comfortably

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Philosophy of the Home - Domestic Space and Happiness

and the thoughts that go behind the craft

and keep dry when not in use

Ways of Seeing - John Berger Notebooks The spout is just theWays of Seeing John Berger Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most