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5 sight go both ways. Hiding is blind. Identities make the suspect prime. When every object doubles, what do we follow? We must prevent change of portraiture (with a hesitation on the gender); prime suspects prove odd by definition. 2 A bicycle wheel, indeed any named and recognizable cluster function (object), presents an unstable atmosphere, wrapped in informational attributes, not even a single description-word. They warn us: “If you sense a fuzzy emanation, you may glean there’s been a recent turning.” This isn’t grandma’s intelligence. Turning an agent is delicate. Subjects bundle partialities in lied objects, emotional baggage, preening. Bicycle Wheel, Paris, 1913. Duchamp: “I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoyed looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace. It was like having a fireplace in my studio, the movement of the wheel reminded me of the movement of flames.” Fresh Window, 1920, Paris just before La/Bagarre/ d’Austerlitz.

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