The gaze implies a concentration of the spectator's activity into that of looking, the glance implies that no extraordinary effort... is being invested in the activity of looking. The very terms we habitually use to designate the person who watches TV or the cinema screen tend to indicate this difference. The cinema-looker is a spectator: caught by the projection yet separate from its illusion. The TV looker is a viewer, casting a lazy eye over proceedings, keeping an eye on events, or, as the slightly archaic designation had it, "looking in."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Carlyle is not a seer, but a brave looker-on and reviewer; not the most free and catholic observer of men and events, for they are... likely to find him preoccupied, but unexpectedly free and catholic when they fall within the focus of his lens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »