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Empty work

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The work that many do.

It keeps them busy, but not sustained. It is the empty, idling.
They know they must practice their craft; establish a routine, gaining strength, increasing proficiency so that they will move beyond craftsmanship into authorship.
Sadly, they lack influence — tacking to the rear, without understanding their direction. They gather in bachelor herds, fending off outside influence, while they clear their throat, thinking they are practicing the scales.

They work to a formula and claim freedom from the debris of artist thinking. They are lost in their thicket; neither in nor out of the woods.

The Rhythmic Eye

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In normal use the eyes are rarely still for long.
Apart from small tremors, their most common
movement is the flick from one position to another
called a “saccade.” Saccades usually take less than
a twentieth of a second, but they happen several
times each second in reading and may be just as
frequent when a picture or an actual scene is being
inspected. This means that there is a new retinal
image every few hundred milliseconds. Ulric Neisser