"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote :
>
> Roland Barthes, in his
> essay on photography titled the "Chambre Claire", called this odd stuff
the
> "punctum", for example a small, unexpected detail that shouldn't be there
if the
> picture was actually perfect.
>

    This reminds me of the Buddhist story of a monk who, in preparing the
monastary for the visit of a superior, trimmed and cleaned up the garden,
raking the leaves into a compost pile. When the visitor arrived the monk
asked him if he enjoyed the perfection of the garden. The older monk went
over to the compost pile and got a handful of leaves and scattered them over
the garden and said, "-Now- it is perfect"...

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