The Art of Game Design, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Look and Feel of a World Is Defined by Its Aesthetics

DOI: 10.1201/b22101-23

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Monet Refuses the Operation

Doctor, you say that there are no haloes

around the streetlights in Paris

and what I see is an aberration

caused by old age, an affliction.

I tell you it has taken me all my life

to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,

to soften and blur and finally banish

the edges you regret I don’t see,

to learn that the line I called the horizon

does not exist and sky and water,

so long apart, are the same state of being.

Fifty-four years before I could see

Rouen cathedral is built

of parallel shafts ...