instead of attaching ourselves to the inner becoming of things, we place ourselves
outside them in order to recompose their becoming artificially. we take snapshots,
as it were, of the passing reality, and, as these are characteristic of the reality, we
have only to string them on a becoming, abstract, uniform and invisible, situated
at the back of the apparatus of knowledge, in order to imitate what there is that is
characteristic in this becoming itself. perception, intellection, language so proceed
in general. whether we would think becoming, or express it, or even perceive it, 
we hardly do anything else than set going a kind of cinematograph inside us. we may
therefore sum up what we have been saying in the conclusion that the mechanism of
our ordinary knowledge is of a cinematographical kind.

i promised him the apple that i failed to produce this morning, so the morning apple constituted the afternoon.