From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 21:55:20 BST
Hi Platt, all,
>Erin
> >Or would anyone care to suggest a
> > statement/quote/thoughts on the relationship/role of imagination with
> > beauty?
>
>If you're referring to creative imagination, the following may be relevant
>to your question (substituting imagination for intuition):
>
>"One of the central emotions of intuition and a major clue to the quality
>of the revelation is a sense of esthetic pleasure. Something in true
>intuition elicits the same response as a painting, a song, or the
>resolution of a well-told tale. It has a certain symmetry and coherence, a
>sense of balance and inevitability. When an idea doesn't fit it is like a
>dab of the wrong color on a painting or the wrong dialogue in a play. It
>projects dissonance. When people are asked how they can distinguish the
>exceptional intuition from the mediocre, it is beauty that comes up
>constantly." (Author unknown to me)
>
>Not only would this apply to intuition and creative imagination but to
>intellectual patterns in general with those engendering esthetic pleasure
>being of higher quality than those that don't. Pirsig refers to this
>several times as did Matt and I in our most recent conversation and Squonk
>repeatedly. My guess is that anyone who likes the MOQ is likely to respond
>to beauty more than the average person. If this be elitism, make the most
>of it.
>
>Platt
But most of the people here who "like the MoQ" seem to like contrarians and
breaking from static patterns. To me, contrarians are people who put the
wrong color in the painting, or the wrong dialog in a play. To harmonize or
be beautiful, something has to be there for it to harmonize with - static
patterns. I agree with that quote, and your approval of beauty, but I
disagree that the MoQ, or rather the average Lila reader's understanding of
it, facilitates responding to beauty. Elitism squared ;-)
Johnny
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