ABSTRACT
The event located in the iconic memory is in front of the observer, and its life has the same duration as the possibility to observe it: it is an event under observation. In the world of events under observation, the icons – the examples of iconic memory – occupy a definite place in the visible space; different examples may occupy different places at the same time. As for the idea that executing observations on the events involves something mystical, the stems from the assumption that whatever is non-verbal, and more generally non-categorial, is mystical. Imagination in the strict sense, i.e., the attempt to see with our eyes closed or almost closed within a spatial location in front of us, is sometimes remarkably akin to the event under observation, for it palely preserves certain qualities in a qualitative way.
