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Let us first take an example from life closely related to what we have said above.
Most of New York streets have no names: they are numbered instead. You have Fifth Avenue, Forty-Second street, etc. This method of naming streets confuses the new-comer. We are accustomed to streets having names, this is much easier for us, for the name of a street evokes in our minds its image. In other words, when we pronounce the name, we experience a whole lot of sensations.
I found it very difficult to remember the Images of New York streets, and, consequently, the streets themselves. Such neutral words as "Forty Second Street" or "Forty-Fifth Street," did not call to my mind any sensation of the general appearance of the street in question. To help myself, I began to fix in my memory a series of objects characteristic of this or that street, objects that would make my mind respond to the signal "42" in a different way it would to "45." Thus, my memory was cluttered with theatres, movie-houses, shops, characteristic buildings, etc., a complex for each separate street. This process of memorizing consisted of two stages: in the first stage, in reply to the words "Forty-Second Street" my memory very slowly unrolled a whole chain of elements characteristic of the street, but I had no concrete picture of the street, because the separate elements would not yet combine into a single image. And it was only in the second stage, when the elements added up into one, that the number "42" aroused a series of elements too, but not as a chain; this time it was something unified — the general aspect of the street, its integrated image.
It was only then that I could say I really memorized the street. The image of the street formed itself in my perception and feelings in exactly the same manner as an integral and unforgettable image gradually emerges from the component elements of a work of art.
In both cases, whether it be the process of memorizing or the process of perceiving a work of art, the canon is the same — the particular enters our consciousness and feelings through the whole, and the whole, through the image.
The image penetrates our consciousness iand feelings and, through aggregation, its every detail is preserved in our sensations and memory as part of the whole. This may hi a sound image — a rhythmical and melodic sound picture, or it may be a plastic image — a visual combination of various elements of the memorized series.
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