From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 20:51:46 BST
Pop ?
Are you an octagenarian David ? :-)
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morey" <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk>
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Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: MD Notes on Beauty, Art and DQ
> 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>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>; <owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk>
> 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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