Scopic drive

Talking about boats, here are some quotes:

“A central theme in Lacan's work on the gaze is the notion of the gaze as being a pre-existing staring at the subject by the outside world. He recounts the story of being out in a boat with a fisherman and seeing the glint of a sardine can floating in the water. His companion, an old salt, asks: ‘Do you see that can?’ and, without waiting for Lacan's reply, states: ‘well, it does not see you’.”

“Desire is in the wailing of the baby as incorrectly, but pleasurably answered by the breast. You can offer an answer to a demand, but you can not satisfy desire or the cause of desire. By satisfying the demand, we stifle the desire.”

Michael Brown in Why the Photographer Does not See

And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses

Had the look of flowers that are looked at.

BURNT NORTON (No. 1 of 'Four Quartets') T.S. Eliot

Which takes me to (all roads read to lhome):

“o wad some power the giftie gie us tae see oorsels as ithers see us!”

Robert Burns