The hump of the advancing wave rises more at one point than at any other, and it is here that it becomes hemmed in white. Palomar tends to reduce his relations with the outside world and, to defend himself against the general neurasthenia, he tries to keep his sensations under control insofar as possible. Palomar means to do at this moment is simply see a wave-that is, to perceive all its simultaneous components without overlooking any of them-his gaze will dwell on the movement of the wave that strikes the shore until it can record aspects not previously perceived as soon as he notices that the images are being repeated, he will know he has seen everything he wanted to see and he will be able to stop.ДЄ nervous man who lives in a frenzied and congested world, Mr. These aspects vary constantly, so each wave is different from another wave, even if not immediately adjacent or successive in other words, there are some forms and sequences that are repeated, though irregularly distributed in space and time. In other words, you cannot observe a wave without bearing in mind the complex features that concur in shaping it and the other, equally complex ones that the wave itself originates. But isolating one wave is not easy, separating it from the wave immediately following, which seems to push it and at times overtakes it and sweeps it away and it is no easier to separate that one wave from the preceding wave, which seems toДrag it toward the shore, unless it turns against the following wave, as if to arrest it, Then, if you consider the breadth of the wave, parallel to the shore, it is hard to decide where the advancing front extends regularly and where it is separated and segmented into independent waves, distinguished by their speed, shape, force, direction.

At this point he could convince himself that he has concluded the operation he had set out to achieve, and he could go away. Palomar sees a wave rise in the distance, grow, approach, change form and color, fold over itself, break, vanish, and flow again. Finally, it is not 'the waves' that he means to look at, but just one individual wave: in his desire to avoid vague sensations, he establishes for his every action a limited and precise object. Palomar has nothing against contemplation in principle, none of these three conditions applies to him. He is not contemplating, because for contemplation you need the right temperament, the right mood, and the right combination of exterior circumstances and though Mr.

He is not lost, because he is quite aware of what he is doing: he wants to look at a wave and he is looking at it. Not that he is lost in contemplation of the waves. Palomar is standing on the shore, looking at a wave. The sea is barely wrinkled, and little waves strike the sandy shore.

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