"I am making a filmic work based on talks with Erik Verlinde, theoretical physicist, on gravity and his yet to be released theory. The work touches on ideas of invisibility and the unknowable, thought processes, and the role of intuition and notation. I’ve been intrigued by Erik’s process of finding new ways to think about ever challenging topics and how these topics resist visibility."

"But because I do have some dim conception at the outset, one distantly related to what I am looking for, if I boldly make a start with that, my mind, even as my speech proceeds, under the necessity of finding an end for that beginning, will shape my first confused idea into complete clarity so that, to my amazement, understanding is arrived at as the sentence ends. I put in a few unarticulated sounds, dwell lengthily on the conjunctions, perhaps make use of apposition where it is not necessary, and have recourse to other tricks which will spin out my speech, all to gain time for the fabrication of my idea in the workshop of the mind."

Heinrich von Kleist – On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking. In: Selected Writings, Hackett Publishing, 1997


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