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Daily Archives: November 24, 2012
A Reminder of Life’s Fleeting Nature
This is in the New York Times this morning: There they were, [two clowns] seeking to amuse the packed rows of onlookers at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, ambling along amid the bobbing Hello Kitty and The Elf … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Dillard, death, existentialism, heart attack, life, simple pleasures, walker percy
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Would Edmund Burke Have Approved of Artists Blending the Sublime and the Beautiful?
For Edmund Burke (1729-1797), in his A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), our strongest emotions are associated with danger, pain, and fear (most particularly the fear of death, the “king of … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 