December 2009
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On art and beauty
homeofthevain:
No matter how keenly, how admirably, a story, a piece of music, a picture is discussed and analyzed, there will be minds that remain blank and spines that remain unkindled. A poor man is robbed of his overcoat; another poor fellow is turned into a beetle — so what?
There is no rational answer to so what. We can take the story apart, we can find out how the bits fit, how one part...
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you ain’t born typical
“It takes an enormous act of violence to begin something.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Young Workman’s Letter”
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