scanned snow

http://www.microscopics.co.uk/blog/2008/microscopic-snow-and-ice-zoom/



'allegorical interpretation is a type of scanning that, moving back and forth across the text, readjusts its terms in constant modification of a type quite different from our stereotypes of some static or medieval or biblical decoding'

Jameson/ Postmodernism or The cultural logic of late capitalism/ Duke / 1991/ p168