Under the gaze of Ulysses –

Species, words and other landscapes

a TRAVEL NOTEBOOK by Manuel Valente Alves


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“Thoughts are the images of things, as words are of thoughts; and we all know that images and pictures are only so far true as they are true representations of men and things. [...] For poets as well as painters think it their business to take the likeness of things from their appearance.” — Joseph Trapp, Lectures on Poetry (1711)

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“Now for the thinking soul images take the place of direct perceptions; and when it asserts or denies that they are good or bad, it avoids or pursues them. Hence the soul never thinks without a mental image.” – Aristotle, De anima III