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michaelboy) wrote2024-10-09 07:50 pm
michaelboy) wrote2024-10-09 07:50 pm
Beautiful
Although there do appear to be a few basics, to me incredible beauty isn't really much a quantity of definitive or classical aesthetics. It is, in nearly each time that I chance to experience some thing or some one, and without apparent control or choice, that I see and feel something new - regardless of familiarity.
It is nearly inexplicable and really seems to have little to do with some constancy of expectation or visual uniqueness. It is more about me, I suppose.
Hmmm... Say a sunset was one of those with 'god-rays' streaming out in shafts through the clouds in purplish-orange. You know, the grand illustrated kind; where you imagine God telling Moses to lead his people out of Egypt. And say, every day, it was the same sunset.
Very soon, I wouldn't think it beautiful.
Protasis:
If you happen to have a dollar-store kaleidoscope, and the cardboard tube gets stuck...
Apodosis:
Turn it hard, because it is far better to risk breaking it, than to keep staring at the same thing.
It is nearly inexplicable and really seems to have little to do with some constancy of expectation or visual uniqueness. It is more about me, I suppose.
Hmmm... Say a sunset was one of those with 'god-rays' streaming out in shafts through the clouds in purplish-orange. You know, the grand illustrated kind; where you imagine God telling Moses to lead his people out of Egypt. And say, every day, it was the same sunset.
Very soon, I wouldn't think it beautiful.
Protasis:
If you happen to have a dollar-store kaleidoscope, and the cardboard tube gets stuck...
Apodosis:
Turn it hard, because it is far better to risk breaking it, than to keep staring at the same thing.