1. The crisis of the author, each one carries so many influences that a work-idea not the product of one creator, but of many, it has its earliest roots in Anaxagoras, who proclaimed the idea of mixture.

2. The session of impressionist painters with capturing the moment reminds me of the flow we find in Heraclitus.

3. I find, in art and more specifically in painting, a better model for pre-Socratic atomism than the alphabet: Think, for example, of Pollock as an illustration of meaningless atomic order, far superior to using rtyhgfcvbhjmn