When Virginia Woolf first laid eyes on one of Paul Cézanne's still lifes with apples in April 1918 she wrote in her diary: "There are 6 apples in the Cézanne picture. What can 6 apples not be? I began to wonder. Theres their relationship to each other, & their colour, & their solidity.'^1,2 Cézanne wanted to "astonish Paris with an apple.'³ Astonishment—""wonder" before the world,'⁴ as Eugen Fink, Husserl's assistant called it—is the motive for phenomenology, recalling Aristotle's claim that "wonder is the source origin of philosophy itself, because it represents man's primary thirst for knowledge.'⁵