“What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?” “Where do the images in our imagination come from?” These images, Eva Brann reminds us, are not what they theelves display. They feign or imitate or copy what they seem to stand for. Brann turns and returns to a consideration of the nature of these images using words, their etymology, and their capacity to prompt image-making in her adventure in tracking down the ultimate source of our inner images.