Known entities like Ed Ruscha, Rita Ackermann, and Marilyn Minter make appearances, but it's the work that is not
immediately knowable that intrigues.
The sovereign reality to which Wieman calls attention is
immediately knowable in everyone's experience.
Every determination of his nature which makes the God
immediately knowable is indeed a milestone on the way of approximation, but one which marks an increase instead of a decrease in the distance; it does not measure toward the Paradox but away from it, back past Socrates and the Socratic ignorance.
If he believes his eyes he is deceived, for the God is not
immediately knowable.
«In its notional assents... the mind contemplates its own creations instead of things,» writes Newman, because in them we leave the realm of
the immediately knowable.