From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 18:57:43 BST
Hi Platt
I enjoyed that. At a rock festival (Galstonbury) today in the UK
the audience were treated to a bit more beauty than usual in the
form of an Act from Wagner's ring. A very good thing. I wonder
what the pop audience made of it.
regards
David M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: MD Notes on Beauty, Art and DQ
> More notes on Beauty, Art and DQ:
>
> Beauty is a fact, a fundamentally reality.
>
> Beauty is culturally universal,. a unique human characteristic that arose
> with self-consciousness.
>
> Beauty creates a holy hush, a moment where you hardly dare breath, a
> moment of reverence to mysterious, majestic wonder.
>
> A tuning fork within us hums when we encounter something beautiful.
>
> In the presence of great beauty, one feels fully present in the now
> moment.
>
> When something works well it has a rightness about it that we call beauty.
>
> The present moment is our ocean which, at best, is beauty all around.
>
> The pleasure of beauty is a reward that the brain is designed to give
> itself for the accomplishment of certain creative tasks.
>
> Science chooses the beautiful theory because beauty is the way the world
> works.
>
> The only means we have for recognizing the difference between creative
> evolution and its destructive parodies is the sense of beauty.
>
> Reason has it limits. It cannot tell the difference between a finger
> painting and a Rembrandt.
>
> We reserve the word beautiful for that which pleases us to the highest
> degree and most exceptionally.
>
> Most other goods like food drink health and wealth which pleases us please
> us only on being possessed. They please us when they satisfy our desire to
> have them, not just contemplate them. In contrast, we may be quite content
> simply to contemplate or behold and object of beauty. If in addition we
> desire to possess it, we do not regard it as beautiful because of that
> fact.
>
> The body dies; the body's beauty lives. -Wallace Stevens
>
> Do not stand at my grave and wee; I am not there, I do not sleep.
> I am a thousand winds that blow; I am the diamond glints on snow.
> I am the sunlight on ripened grain; I am the gentle autumn's rain.
> When you awake in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush
> Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft star that shines at night.
> Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there.
>
> Best,
> Platt
>
>
>
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