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But receptivity is blocked by usual ways of being. Our everyday sense of things is policed and patrolled. While some calls are heeded, many are muffled, neglected, or suppressed.
And yet, certain things call. There are “ways in which particular aspects of sense call for a resolution or response—a fulfillment—in another aspect of sense. The body’s grasp of one such aspect of sense sets up in that body a felt need for—a propulsion toward—the other. The dots impel me to notice their regular pairing, and the music propels me to dance. In other settings, a doorknob calls to me to grasp and turn it, an open highway urges me to drive quickly, and the smooth, repetitive undulations of sand dunes invite me to wander aimlessly.”[1]
[1] John Russon, Bearing Witness to Epiphany: Persons, Things, and the Nature of Erotic Life (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009), p. 14.