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Chris Ware

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or

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When we are young, we begin to recognize objects by their names and meanings, which makes us stop really seeing them as they are. As grown-ups, we get so caught up in ideas and concerns about what has happened or what might happen that we rarely pay attention to the present moment or what is directly in front of us.

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