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It is, of course, one thing to see images, or pictures, and quite another to see the thing pictured, and sense its reality, its purposiveness, what it would be to see the thing as it actually is. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 9, Sentence #159)

Two helmeted men, figures on the vase, were sharp and prominent, clearly delineated, red, on a black background. I now, in my memory, saw the image on the vase very differently than I had earlier. I saw it now for what it was, what it betokened, saw it as something real, something frightening. It is, of course, one thing to see images, or pictures, and quite another to see the thing pictured, and sense its reality, its purposiveness, what it would be to see the thing as it actually is. One might compare the picture of a beast, with the beast met, unexpectedly, alive, in the wild. The experiences are quite different. And so, suddenly shaken, I realized that the imagery I had casually noted long ago, in passing, and to which I had given little thought, was an image of an authentic reality, and that I had now, for the first time, experienced that reality, or something much like it. - (Plunder of Gor)