What is visible is bizarre enough.
What is visible will be played with; what is invisible will not.
What is visible in battle here is less an organized force than the martial manifestation of a popular uprising.
What is visible is not the power as such, but rather its physical means such as lobbying activities, party financing, and armed force.
What is visible to me now is how another novel, the one all of this curiosity is really feeding, will likely appear then.
What is visible: the way one holds a cigarette, or slouches their chin when they are asleep and what can only be imagined: who was that woman peering out from the saris, hanging up to dry?
But that assertion conflicts with what is visible in the field.
Azoulay's emphasis throughout the book is on the spectator, who bears responsibility "toward what is visible".
He can record only what is visible - and yet he is also recording something else.
Much of what is visible today dates from the Roman period.
