There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever.

All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.

Wallace Berman’s “Aleph,” made and frequently revised between 1956 and 1966, uses shaky newsreel and home-movie footage obscured by paint, scratches and Letraset symbols applied directly to the celluloid to evoke a more hardcore experience, one that Mr. Brakhage described as “the only true envisionment of the ’60s I know.”

I know I speak for every American when I say to him today, we are all Georgians.