

It is the function of art to renew our perception.




What we are familiar with we cease to see.






The writer shakes up the familiar scene,







and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
-Anais Nin
Anais Nin, 1903-1977
"Writer and diarist, born in Paris, of a Catalan father and a Danish mother, Anais spent many of her early years with Cuban relatives. Later a naturalized American citizen, she lived and worked in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Author of avant-garde novels in the French surrealistic style, she is best known for her life and times in The Diary of Anais Nin, Vols. I-VII. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966-1980; and The Early Diaries of Anais Nin, Vols. I-IV. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-1985."
bits
of
time
disappeared
like
old
pennies
(GREG BOTTOMS,
A Seat for the Coming Savior)